Feeling freaked out about artificial intelligence? You’ve got good company, in the form of Oscar-winning filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. At #SXSW, they addressed the AI-sized elephant in the room: https://t.co/XNHfMDIiZy
Steve Jobs found lessons in *every* experience and brought those ideas back to Apple.
I found 4 surprising examples spread across 4 different books.
1. How to recruit talent from J. Robert Oppenheimer:
“At Pixar, it was a whole company of A players. When I got back to Apple, that's what I decided to try to do.
My role model was J. Robert Oppenheimer.
I read about the type of people he sought for the atom bomb project.
I wasn't nearly as good as he was, but that's what I aspired to do.”
📖 from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
2. The importance of not cutting corners from his Dad:
Jobs’ father was a formative influence on his son’s appreciation of design.
“My father loved doing things right. He even cared about the look of the parts you couldn’t see.”
His father refused to build a fence that wasn’t constructed as well on the back side as it was the front.
“For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
📖 from Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products by Leander Kahney
3. Product line uniformity from Paris architecture:
The city’s architecture fascinated him.
He saw a simplicity and uniformity of design in the buildings—so many of them seven or eight stories tall and made of similar yellow stone, exuding an elegance and consistency that instilled a sense of harmony in the brain.
Steve’s point was that you could parachute anywhere into the city and realize you were nowhere but Paris.
“There aren’t many cities where you can do that,” he pointed out.
“The architecture here creates a unique signature for the entire city.”
That Parisian simplicity was something he wanted Apple to emulate.
📖 from Finding The Next Steve Jobs by Nolan Bushnell
4. The importance of insanely simple interfaces from working at Atari:
Jobs later said he learned some important lessons at Atari, the most profound being the need to keep interfaces friendly and intuitive.
Instructions should be insanely simple:
“Insert quarters, avoid Klingons.”
Devices should not need manuals.
That simplicity rubbed off on him and made him a very focused product person.
📖 from The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
Ne manquez absolument pas le début de la minisérie #Sambre ce soir sur #France2. Bien plus qu'un "true crime", un récit bouleversant et une réflexion puissante, aussi documentée qu'émotionnelle, sur le regard de la société française sur le viol. On n'en sort pas indemne.
Nous y sommes! Merci à l'équipe @annecyfestival, aux bénévoles, aux prestataires et à tous nos partenaires. Que cette semaine soit la plus belle possible et qu'elle soit placée sous le signe de la fraternité.
Vive Annecy, Vive le cinéma d'animation!
Aubrey Plaza says she still purchases entire shows and movies instead of streaming: “I’ll go on iTunes and just, like, buy the whole ‘Sopranos’ series, and then my husband will be like, ‘You literally can watch that for free on HBO Max.'” https://t.co/uLgWwaH1w5
Geoffrey Hinton, an AI pioneer, quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than decade, so he can freely speak out about the risks posed by AI. “It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things,” he said. https://t.co/DJ9m6ilgvi