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Jim Szelagowski🌻 retweeted
ALT “The New York Times will not publish or distribute any images taken as part of the White House still photography pool today, in conjunction with the other members of that pool and in a show of support for the news organizations being unfairly targeted by the president’s barring of journalists from the White House. We remain committed to covering the president’s travel to New York City today. Americans deserve a free and independent media covering their government without intimidation, as well as comprehensive coverage of newsworthy events.” — Charlie Stadtlander, a spokesperson for The New York Times
Steve Jobs was on another level, man.
In 1997, a developer publicly humiliated Steve Jobs in front of a packed room.
Jobs had just returned to Apple after 11 years away. Instead of fighting back, he admitted the guy was partly right — then explained the principle he believed could turn Apple into an $8–10 billion-a-year business.
And his answer had almost nothing to do with technology.
Most companies, Jobs explained, work backwards. They build something technically impressive, fall in love with what they created, and only then ask how they are going to sell it.
He had made that mistake himself so many times that he said he had the “scar tissue” to prove it.
His rule was the opposite: start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.
Jobs used the LaserWriter as an example. Inside the printer were a Canon laser engine, an Apple-designed controller, Adobe PostScript and AppleTalk. It was an extraordinary piece of engineering, but none of that was the reason he believed people would buy it.
When the first page came out, Jobs looked at it and realized they didn't need to explain what was inside the machine. They could simply hold up the result and ask one question:
Do you want this?
That was the entire point.
Customers don't pay you for how difficult your product was to build. They pay for what it does for them.
A developer tried to expose what Steve Jobs didn't know about technology.
Jobs responded by explaining something far more valuable about business.
Jim Szelagowski🌻 retweeted
People will act like this material doesn’t work, but there is nothing high tech or unproven about this.
We have had the capacity to scale bioplastics for decades. We just use petroplastics because oil corporations control governments.
Jim Szelagowski🌻 retweeted
Trump looting almost $2 billion from the government coffers to pay his supporters is one of the largest scandals in US history.
But our press is so beaten down and the public has become so fatigued by his constant criminality that it's barely a news story.
I wouldn’t rely on this info exclusively, but I was prepared for a multi-hour wait at @ATLairport and got through security in one hour. Staff here is doing a great job!
Happy to report that I, a 40 year old man, am absolutely acing the 2nd grade math lessons on @duolingo
