Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 60 minute lecture from Steve Jobs after being fired from Apple. It will teach you more about building companies than most startup books ever will.
Steve Jobs, on why design matters more than raw capability:
"The telegraph was an amazing breakthrough... some people talked about putting a telegraph on every desk... but it wouldn't have worked... you had to learn Morse code. It takes about 40 hours to learn Morse code."
The telegraph was objectively more advanced for its time. Yet the telephone crushed it.
Not because of superior technology.
Because the phone required zero learning.
"People already knew how to use it. Because you knew how to talk. You don't have to teach people how to speak."
This is the insight most engineers miss:
Raw capability doesn't win markets. Usability does.
The telegraph demanded you become a specialist. The phone met you where you already were.
This is why Steve was obsessed with making the Macintosh intuitive when competitors were shipping command-line DOS machines.
The Mac didn't need a manual. It needed a mouse and a screen that felt like talking, not coding.
You could put the most powerful machine on every desk. But if it requires 40 hours of training to use it, you've already lost.
The winner isn't the breakthrough that's most technically impressive.
It's the one that requires the least effort to understand.
Chuck Norris didn't join the Marine Corps...the Marine Corps applied to him.
Heaven’s streets have always been guarded by Marines. Today, Chuck Norris reported for duty.
We mourn the passing of Chuck Norris, a @usairforce veteran, who also became an honorary Marine in 2007 when awarded the title by then Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James T. Conway.
Chuck Norris is one of just over 100 individuals to be awarded the title of Honorary Marine in the entire 250-year history of the Corps.
Some missions may require a battalion, but this one just requires an Honorary Marine.
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A DR Congo fan known as ‘Lumumba’ stood motionless in the stands for the entire match against Senegal at AFCON on Saturday, mirroring a statue of the country’s independence leader.