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The Jobsian fallacy
October 31st, 2011, 4 comments

Scott Berkun:

I’m sad Steve Jobs is gone. I’m sadder still to see the vultures of shallow thinking circling his name. There is a fallacy around great men, a notion we can learn best from their behavior on how we ourselves can achieve. But that’s only true if we study them with an honest eye. When writers are clouded by mythology and hero worship, they do more harm than good, as sloppy thinking is often the mortar used to put men on pedestals.

This Week in Google Episode 45 · In this week's episode of TWiG, Leo, Jeff, and I talked about Google's "ban" of Windows PCs for employees, Android tablets, the Sprint EVO (which I love), blogger journalism, and some of Steve Jobs' remarks at D8. My tip of the week was the new "Save to Google Docs" link in Google's PDF viewer. ∞ June 4th, 2010, 4 comments

It’s the Software, Stupid
February 3rd, 2010, 4 comments

"In hardware you can't build a computer that's twice as good as anyone else's anymore. But you can do it in software." —Steve Jobs in a 1994 Rolling Stone interview [via]