I also remember having this child-like sense of awe with the phone itself; its internal and external design features, a lucid dream behind a glass screen. It was the mirror-image sensation of the awe I had when I laid eyes on the first iPod Touch. Upon unboxing the iPod Touch, I had nothing else in the world to compare it to. Yes, there was the Nintendo from my early childhood, the PlayStation, the computer, the cell phone, the internet, but as sufficiently advanced as those technologies were, to me, their magic was meager to the Touch.
He did, however, share that:. If someone had asked me how I reacted to the iPod touch, I would have answered similarly. The feelings I felt about the world, people, myself, beauty, and everything else, after taking LSD, showed me the former was an expression, a containment, a symbol, a vessel, a carbon copy, of the latter.
My belief is that Steve Jobs, at some point in his life, decided he would give as many people across the world access to a connection, a love, an experience, so deep, as deep as he had with LSD, but through his work. Whereas a musician might write and sing for the same purpose, to create, express, connect, and evolve further with his audience, the iPhone was made as a synonym, of sorts, to the experience of psychedelia.
Nine hours after my first dose of acid, I fell asleep at 6AM. There were two interesting articles. But Jobs knew how to inspire material lust. He knew that consumers want something that not only sparkles and awes, but also feels accessible, easy to use, an object with which we want to merge and to feel one and the same. Jobs had this experience.
Research shows that the psychedelic experience is, in fact, long lasting: a new study published last week found that people who took magic mushrooms psilocybin had long-term personality changes, becoming more open, more curious, more intellectually engaged and more creative.
These personality shifts persisted more than a year after taking the drugs. Dormehl told Metro:. He was also hosting naked house parties and dropping acid.
Jobs certainly grew up in the thick of the 60s revolution. Allen Ginsberg wrote his seminal poem Howl, one of the most popular of the counterculture generation, only a few months after Steve Jobs was born in , in a coffee house just one hour away from where the future Apple CEO enjoyed his childhood in California. Before taking LSD I thought the experience would be mostly visual, and if anything, very confusing. I thought of things like hallucinogen persisting perception disorder and being arrested.
Two or three weeks after taking acid for the first time, I compared these notions to what I actually experienced. There was a glaring disconnect between what I expected psychedelics to be and what they actually were.
Professor David Nutt, the director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit where Carhart-Harris is doing the research […] has written extensively about the wrong-headedness of the current drug laws. That brought a huge tension into society. Young leaders can learn a lot watching Jobs speak to an audience. Jobs's no-nonsense style also gave us plenty of great quotes about business, marketing, and life. He changed the way countless entrepreneurs think about designing products, for example.
There is, however, a more important lesson that Jobs taught us, and it's not about building great products. It's about connecting dots. Like several other famous founders, Steve Jobs never graduated from college. In fact, Jobs quipped that giving that speech was "the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. And yet, Jobs believed that dropping out of college was one of the dots that formed a part of the path he followed through life. He just couldn't see it at the time.
Of course, he may not have ever started Apple if he'd not dropped out of college. Even that, however, didn't go according to plan. It was less than 10 years after starting the company with Steve Wozniak that Jobs was fired by Apple's board. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. Jobs went on to start NeXT. But he had a near-superhuman ability to know what to put into a product and what to leave out. He could make the seams between hardware and software nearly vanish.
He made hard decisions that were often questioned , but almost always prescient and—eventually—widely imitated. No single person has taken on that responsibility in the Cook era, and it shows.
Right now, the odd changes which the company decided to make to its Safari browser —and has only partially unwound —seem like an instance of inadequate editing of its raw ideas. His own mistakes were often doozies.
Still, even if Apple errs in public more than it once did, it usually gets to a good place eventually. In the post-Jobs era, the iPhone lineup has had some false starts—remember the proudly plasticky iPhone 5c? But the four new iPhone 13 models —and the still-available iPhone SE —make for the most comprehensible iPhone line since the days when it consisted of a grand total of one phone. We lost the guy who may have been the single most memorable personality the consumer-tech business ever produced:.
Up there on stage—often by himself—he came off as human, even vulnerable, in a way that few business executives would choose to make themselves. That was true all along, and even more so in his final years as each appearance was an opportunity for public speculation about his health. As people noted with increasing frequency that the same handful of white guys represented Apple at every event , the company began to switch things up, calling on a larger, more diverse group of Apple employees to divvy up the presenting.
With the COVID pandemic and the shift to virtual events, the company ventured even further away from the Stevenote approach. Even if it returns to live product launches in , it seems likely that high-production-value canned videos will play a larger part than when almost everything that mattered was happening in front of a live audience.
Steve Jobs is in no danger of being forgotten. And what could be more Steve Jobs-like than that?
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