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Steve Jobs - 1955-2011
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“All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
- Steve Jobs
Rest in peace, Steve.
and forgets the longing soothed and mesmerized
Long tongues licking in darkness
Sparks leaping on their brave voyage
in rainless skies, a cool moon...
pure is my heart
- Senseki
Whether you're fan of his products or his competition's, the world lost an amazing man today. A true genius.
And I had never known he had any connection with Buddhism. RIP Mr. Jobs
The world lost a brilliant mind.
"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me.… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful—that’s what matters to me"
-—Steve Jobs’s résumé
You must be living in a world of black and white. Not everything should be judged "good" or "bad". His point was it was refreshing having an open minded person on the stage rather than all the stuffy greedy people who previously occupied it unanimously. He's not saying "Hey everyone get wasted and there's no god!", he's saying he was at least much more on the path to the Buddha's teachings than is typical.
This is very sudden.
Someone on Facebook has a great quote about him:
"The thing that made Steve Jobs great was exactly that he wasn't trying to make billions of dollars -- he was trying to make things that improved people's lives. The exploitation of labor is a fault of capitalism, not Steve Jobs. If you know anything about his story of being exiled from the company he started by a money-hungry board of directors, you would probably understand that he genuinely didn't give a shit about the money. He is exactly the kind of person that is needed in a post-capitalist society in that he was driven by the desire to contribute to society, not make billions of dollars. You are mistaking Steve Jobs for Bill Gates." ~ Tyler
Anyway regardless of that, I do wish him a good rebirth, and I do hope his family and friends get through the tough days ahead quickly.
"Mr. Jobs has clearly never craved money for money’s sake and has never been ostentatious with his wealth. He took a $1-a-year salary from Apple before stepping down as chief executive last week, though his stock options have made him billions of dollars. In a 1985 interview with Playboy magazine, he said of his riches, “You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.”
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/the-mystery-of-steve-jobss-public-giving/
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Yet, Steve Jobs is a visionary. After he was fired from Apple. He took over a very new CG company called PIXAR. No one knew back in the late 1980s that CG movies will be the dominate form of animation. He took that risk and his movies dominated Disney in animation for years.
Also the New York times has a great article why Steve Jobs doesn't publized his charity giving.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/the-mystery-of-steve-jobss-public-giving/
Check this out:
Housing:
"As a bachelor he only had a mattress, huge Ansel Adams prints, and a super-expensive stereo system as pieces of furtniture. He did not sleep on a bed for years — even though he was a multi-millionaire. At Woodside the kitchen was the only room that was fully furnished. He did have a Bosendorfer grand piano and a BMW motorcycle in his living room however, testaments of his love of German engineering.
Steve’s current house in Palo Alto is still decorated with austerity, although Laurene has tempered that quite a bit. Here’s how a Time journalist described it: “The Steve Jobs who is currently running two sophisticated companies lives in a turn-of-the- century English-style country house in Palo Alto with his wife Laurene [...]. The house is run with a distinct 1960s flavor. Laurene has planted a garden of wildflowers, herbs and vegetables all around. The rooms are sparsely decorated, the only extravagances being Ansel Adams photographs.” Some things never change..."
Vehicles:
One car: Mercedes
One Plane: Gulfstream V Jet paid by Apple for use for family and work.
http://allaboutstevejobs.com/being/4-home/4-home.html
For a multi billionare, he has less stuff than Gates or any other rich person.
If I ever become rich. I rather live in a small house than live in luxury.
He was influenced a lot by Zen Monk, Kobun Chino Otogowa. Steve always wanted to become a Zen vicar, but Kobun Chino Otogowa told him to start apple instead.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/226104/20111006/steve-jobs-no-more-9-facts-little-known-about-the-apple-wizard.htm
http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-can-still-become-a-great-philanthropist/
“What a loss to humanity it would have been if Jobs had dedicated the last 25 years of his life to figuring out how to give his billions away, instead of doing what he does best,” he writes. “We’d still be waiting for a cell phone on which we could actually read e-mail and surf the web.”
but I am sure he must have been very generous to some causes.
egomaniac.
People use the internet to connect with people. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of time spent on the internet is dedicated to connecting with people. That's why facebook is so popular.
Also, the definition of "The world around them" needs to be re-examined in light of technology. Technology has expanded the possibilities for defining what is "around" us.
I do agree with you about defining the world around us being helped by technology. One thing I think people need to remember, is we're not at the end point here. There are some negative aspects to technology, but in my opinion, as technology progresses each individual "piece" of technology seems to have less and less shortcomings as time goes on. For instance, look at how easy it is to have a live video conversation with people across the world now. You couldn't do that 10 years ago really, so at least we're constantly trying to solve the problems that technology itself brings too.
This actually reminds me of another belief people had as technology increases. How often have you heard people say life is just horrible these days, there's so much crime and death and this and that. The fact is, the only reason they think that is because now they have access to information about the rest of the world rather than just their little community. In reality, life has never been easier or more peaceful and the people have never been more compassionate since at least the dawn of civilization. Just look at the fact that our politicians need to lie about the facts to start an unjust war these days, when in the past leaders went to war for whatever reason at whatever time they felt like. sorry for the tangent, hard to turn off early morning thoughts :P
http://blog.cagle.com/tag/steve-jobs-RIP
hehe, I'd like to see a reincarnation cartoon of him:
He's in a garage with Wozniak: "Hey Woz, I got a great idea for an electronic egg beater..."
"When men live huddled together without true communication, there seems to be a greater sharing, and a more genuine communion. But this is not communion, only immersion in the general meaninglessness of countless slogans and clichés repeated over and over again so that in the end one listens without hearing and responds without thinking. The constant din of empty words and machine noises, the endless booming of loudspeakers end by making true communication and true communion almost impossible... Mere living alone does not isolate a man, mere living together does not bring men into communion."
(Imagine what he would've thought if he were alive today!)
Its a mixed bag-- there's some great advantages with technological advances, but there's a lot of crap too-- and technology often seems to amplify the crap.
Sure, people use the internet to "connect" with other people, yet it's largely superficial. I can't recall the last time I had a meaningful conversation with anybody "connect" with via the internet (and unfortunately that includes some people who use to be very dear friends). Just yesterday my wife found out that her oldest friend's mom passed away via a Facebook post two days after the fact. If that's what passes for "connecting" with people, family, friends these days then I fear we may well be fucked.
Agree with you - and this is why I don't want a facebook account and my teenage daughter does and with my encouragement uses her to communicate mostly with our friends overseas and interstate. She receieved a message recently from one of her younger brother's classmate from school - this girl is also 8 or maybe 9 years old and doesn't mix with my son but thought she would ask his older sister to be a friend on facebook.
2. Many traditional, face-to-face conversations are superficial or possibly MOER superficial than online.
3. If communications were restricted to in-person or by phone conversation we would completely lose touch with many people. Arguably, even a little bit of contact with someone is better than none.
4. It's so much easier to "meet" people you want to connect with online. Take this forum, for example.
Anywho, my initial point wasn't so much about Facebook or the internet, but rather these devices, these "smartphone" and iPads and the like. I look around and see folks constantly on them, devoting their attention to the non-stop stream of meaningless Facebook updates ("in line at walmart lol"), video soundbytes, MP3s and celebrity gossip, all while ignoring what's going on around them. People seem to be afraid to disconnect for even a moment. It all becomes rather drug-like and contributes to the collective neurosis of modern society.