Daily Steve Jobs
I’m looking forward to reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, but in the meantime I enjoyed this ReadWriteWeb post that gives a glimpse into some of the book’s key lessons.
Steve was “a magician genius:”
He was, indeed, an example of what the mathematician Mark Kac called a magician genius, someone whose insights come out of the blue and require intuition more than mere mental processing power.
He was a metamorphosing butterfly:
“That’s what I’ve always tried to do—keep moving. Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying.”
And he was maniacally focused:
One of Jobs’s great strengths was knowing how to focus. “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do,” he said. “That’s true for companies, and it’s true for products.”
As RWW distills it: Intuition, Reinvention, Focus.
Steve is so iconic, and so often we talk about him in such soaring rhetoric, that it’s refreshing to hear these kind of details. We can all trust our gut, keep ourselves and our ideas fresh, and focus on what really matters. I don’t design products or run a computer company, but this—this I can do. My colleague recently changed her desktop background to an iconic photo of Steve, to remind herself constantly of all that an inspired, dedicated life can be. I might have to do the same, with those three words alongside it: Intuition, Reinvention, Focus.
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