“And he learns the difference between serif and non-serif. And so he learns all this, the beauty that is type. And guess what? When they build the Mac, he's the first, you know, Steve Jobs' gift is that he brought beauty and art into technology in a way that nobody else had really done before.”
“And so when the Mac launches, they were the only ones who launched, who took the care to launch with different fonts that you could choose that would look beautiful when you typed, that would change the way people felt when they did this. And it made the Macintosh like more successful because they had that. And he goes, you can't connect the dots looking forward.”
“I guess that's what I'm paying you for. These calls ain't cheap. Go ahead. You know, like, what are we doing? And so he says, I'm going to tell you the story of Iron John. Have you heard the story? I said, no. He goes, it's a fable, like an old fable. And fables are great because it's wisdom that's just packaged in a beautiful, simple story that can survive like a mushroom.”
“let Iron John out of the cage and you won't be the same again. It's like a one-way street. You will become more because of this. And so how do you go from wild man to great king is when you realize that being a king is about more than serving your needs.”
“And the only way they get to find out is by going and achieving it. I don't know if you... What is that book? Catch-22? Or is that the great scene where the guy's in the... He gets invited to this great Gatsby party type of thing. And the guy who... The friend who brought him is like, you know, this man, the guy who owns this place, he's the wealthiest guy here.”
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“The famous example of this is the Steve Jobs commencement speech at Stanford. You know, you know this one well or you ever see this? Shocking. Steve Jobs gives the commencement speech at Stanford and his message is he tells the story of his life”
“It's called the arrival fallacy.”