”I’m delightful now!” I still hate Mitt Romney, but it continues to get under my skin when he gets knocked for presentational hangups he had four years ago, but has now largely gotten over. As much as I adore Rachel Maddow, for example, her hammering of Romney night after night for his rich-guy persona is beginning to border on …
Monthly Archive: October 2011
Oct 25 2011
Harold Ford’s Qualifications for Being a Political Analyst
Harold Ford is on TV a lot. He’s on Meet the Press and Morning Joe more often than the hosts themselves. I’m fairly certain he has a cot under David Gregory’s desk. And once he rises from that cot, rubs the sleepiness from his eyes, and grabs a quick bite from the NBC commissary, he can be relied upon …
Oct 12 2011
Man vs. Terminal Services Session
Friend-of-the-blog Jason Guy was an early influence on my decision to switch over to the Apple ecosphere back in 2004. A recent email from him somehow perfectly illustrates the difference in corporations’ business ethics, their notions of efficiency and respect for the customer, and the overall usability of their products. I’ll just let Jason explain: …
Oct 11 2011
It’s Not Your Job to Know What You Want: A Jobsian Lesson for Government?
Matt Bai of the New York Times wishes Washington could learn some lessons from Steve Jobs. In his obituary of Mr. Jobs on The Times’s Web site, John Markoff quoted him as explaining his aversion to market research this way: “It’s not the consumers’ job to know what they want.” In other words, while Mr. Jobs tried to …
Oct 07 2011
Grieving an Ethos, Ctd.
Following up from my post on Steve Jobs, I decided soon after posting that I needed to make one addendum. Lots of folks have been throwing Jobs’ name into lists including Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, among others, and I think those particular two men raise an interesting point: they were both, reportedly, pretty abysmal …
Oct 06 2011
Grieving an Ethos: Thoughts on the Loss of Steve Jobs
Most of the people I work with are, naturally, having very strong feelings about the death of Steve Jobs. But not all, and that’s fine. My wife is also not what I would call crushed by his passing, but she is extremely sympathetic and supportive; she understands how I revered the man and what he …
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