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 …
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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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