August 2011
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Legacy
When I was growing up we always looked forward to summer Sundays, when my Dad was home from work. I think he loved to swim in the ocean as much as we did. He would put us in the back seat of his red convertible and we’d drive south to the beach. Sometimes my mother came, but more often it was just me and my brothers laughing in the open car with the wind blowing our hair wildly. He taught me...
Steve Jobs on design
“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of...
“What if our dreams are a lie?”
– Reading: Ken McAlpine, Islands Apart A thought-provoking series of essays about living apart from today’s ideas of civilization.
