Please wishlist my new game KingMakers on Steam. We've been working really hard on this for 5 years, and can finally unveil it to the public today. Hope you guys like it 🤞
@jacksonhinkle I got my info from your tailor and from the photos you posted. I called him to ask him about his process. Even he said that his base price is not the full bespoke standard, although he can do that if asked.
Becoming Steve Jobs is the most influential book I have read recently. People think of the demigod that made Apple what it is - but little is known of the 30-year-old that was booted off his board, and then proceeded to spend the next 15 years watching Bill Gates be the darling of the media and industry.
Steve Jobs' second company (NeXT) had all founding members leave within a few years. He had to shut down a factory and focus on building software to handle expenses. NeXT had burned some ±$350 million and had nothing to show for it, while Microsoft and IBM dominated what was known as computing in the early 90s.
Most of what we eventually "know" as Steve Jobs - was forged at Pixar—a firm he had acquired from George Lucas - the man behind Star Wars. At Pixar, he was more of a student than a tyrant screaming at people. Unlike Apple or NeXT, the firm's culture was already set and there was little he could to influence it. The creative process was defined, and the people working there were not open to bending to Jobs' will. Steve bankrolled Pixar for a good decade before they dropped Toy Story and birthed the animation movie industry. He became a billionaire when Pixar went public in 1995.
Steve Jobs should have shut down Pixar, because the firm was burning money for quite some time. But he needed something to be a saving grace while his own startup (NeXT) was also turning into a dumpster fire.
Apple eventually acquired NeXT. Steve Jobs sold all of his stocks received as part of the acquisition in six months to display a lack of conviction in their management, only to be requested to return by the board. (what a Chad). A decade later, he sold Pixar to Disney, becoming one of its largest shareholders.
Amidst all this, his motley crew birthed iTunes, the iPod and iPhone. But, unlike the Jobs of the 1980s, the one in the early 2000s knew the value of patience, delegation and creating environments for experimentation. For instance, seven teams were working on Airport wifi technology at Apple, one of whose work transitioned to be the iPhone.
I cannot recommend the book enough if you want to see how personal computing became a thing and the slow, gradual evolution of a "generational" CEO. One of the things I learned is - it takes multiple decades to birth a firm that changes the world. Something most venture funded organisations (often) don't have the liberty to do.
Nvidia ($960B) is now worth more than:
- Facebook ($665B)
- Tesla ($618B)
- Netflix ($168B)
This is a company that started 30 years ago at Denny's and was for decades only a video game chip maker.
Here's why Nvidia is surging:
"Food deserts" are a good example of social scientists getting causality backwards
They saw poor people eating unhealthy foods and blamed local supply. They should have blamed demand
Using data from 13 years of supermarket entries, there's basically no effects on healthy eating
@anothercohen "Hello, 911, yes, I'd like to report a murder. The victim? Male, looks 50, and witnesses say he laughed at the word 'Figma' before he was brutally butchered with facts by a disabled man"