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Jony Ive still thinks of Steve Jobs every day
That’s a great quote you posted, and it reminds me of something Richard Feynman said when asked if it takes a special kind of person to become a physicist.blastdoor said:Having never met Steve Jobs, I'm sure I have an incomplete and in some ways inaccurate understanding of him. But I find that I also think of him often, just because he made so many good points and made them so well. One that I think about often is:When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is — everything around you that you call life, was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfNvmF0Bqw
I remember one small instance in which I had that kind of realization. I was trying to use an equation from a text book and I wasn't getting the expected result. I started to suspect there was an error in the equation, so I checked another textbook, which had the same equation. So I banged my head against the wall for a while, convinced that I was doing something wrong -- surely it couldn't be the case that I was right and two textbooks were wrong. Finally, I went to my advisor, showed him the equation, and after looking at it for maybe 10 seconds he said, yeah that equation is wrong.
So I realized that this authoritative thing in the world, that I never questioned before, could be wrong. And not only could a textbook be wrong, but pretty clearly the people who write textbooks cut corners, like copying incorrect equations from older text books into their new text book. That experience made me think that maybe these other people weren't so much smarter than me, and maybe I can do something worthwhile, too.
That's the sort of thing that makes me think of Steve Jobs quite often.
He replied something like, “No, there’s no special person. They are just people who studied hard and worked hard and learned all this stuff.”All three of those men, Jon, Jobs, and Feynman, gave us a glimpse of the future, which continues to unfold and enrich our lives.
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Former Apple hardware engineer joins Rivian
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Glued iPhone batteries may be a thing of the past, if this new tech works out
Alien Tape.Afarstar said:
Like Velcro?mikethemartian said:A simple fastener will do. -
Apple Weather's heatwave predictions probably won't apply to you
I find the app is pretty accurate when timing precipitation, but many times the radar doesn’t load properly. When I switch to my local news station website the radar loads as expected. Not sure if that’s a problem with the app or with communication from our local radar station. -
EU hits back at Apple withholding Apple Intelligence from the region
Fine, handle the Ukraine matter yourselves then.kiltedgreen said:
The US is a violent force destabilising peace across the world to suit its own ends. Change my mind.9secondkox2 said:The EU is an extortion racket. Change my mind.
