Mentions (14)
"Most CEOs are unlikable but there's still something human there. There's the weird dorks(Elon, pre-yassified Zuck), the try-hards(Bezos, yassified-Zuck), the jerks(Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison) etc."
"I'm no fan of the Asian tech bros shilling their crappy AI slop app and thinking that they're Steve Jobs."
"I'm not a fan of this trend of "life optimization" that seems to be everywhere, like, apps that sum up difficult books in 15 minutes or Andrew Huberman videos that show you the perfect vitamins to help you think like Steve Jobs."
"If you think about it, all historical figures- good or bad- have cool, dominant-sounding names: Saddam Hussein, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Steve Jobs, Theodore Roosevelt, etc."
"to never buy an iPhone when he left my apartment so he could 'stand vigil' outside of the 5th Avenue Apple Store the night he found out Steve Jobs had died."
"The first class we had to answer a quiz on why Steve Jobs was such a good leader. The whole class was worse than I'm making it sound."
"Steve Jobs is the obvious 'taste' guy in tech, leading with a vision and aesthetic discernment rather than technical skill - but there is a new one!"
"in a 100 years they will wonder why no one revolted against Jobs and his pesky iPhone invention."
"White woman in her early 30s completing her PhD, wearing the Steve Jobs black sweater tucked into jeans with a fitted hat, acknowledging the indigenous land upon which the lecture is held, using the words "black folks" at least 7 times during the first lecture, and identifying as a queer feminist"
"I'd put Dorsey into that Steve Jobs category of tech leaders that were widely hated at the time because we didn't know how much worse things could get."
"He could've had surgery for his cancer but insisted that fruit, seeds, and juice would cure it instead"
"Went back and watched the iPhone being revealed for the first time it just left me stunned, like who could've predicted this piece of consumer tech changing the world so drastically. Even in the presentation when Jobs is explaining how to scroll, type, select contacts and search shit on safari he mi"
"The first class we had to answer a quiz on why Steve Jobs was such a good leader"
"wearing the Steve Jobs black sweater tucked into jeans with a fitted hat"