Steve Jobs On The Payoff Of A Great Employee
The following sound clip is amazing and so very true. This is one of the many reasons TENDIGI doesn’t outsource to any other countries. 25:1 is a great ratio and I think a lot of businesses and startups that outsource their software development are certainly nowhere near 25:1. There are language, cultural, and time-zone barriers that prohibit outsourced software teams from achieving that level of efficiency.
(Unfortunately this video is Flash)
Taken with instagram
"The overall effect often is to legitimize false claims in the public eye through sheer volume of reporting and media references, even if the majority of these reports acknowledges the factual inaccuracy of the original story."
In the studio. (Taken with instagram)
Photoshoot #2 of the day. In the studio!! (Taken with instagram)
Hobbies. (Taken with instagram)
"My problem is the opposite, really — this vision, from an interaction perspective, is not visionary. It’s a timid increment from the status quo, and the status quo, from an interaction perspective, is actually rather terrible."
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(Source: worrydream.com)
Steve Jobs take on Google’s Project Glass
As soon as I saw the video for Google’s Project Glass I instantly recalled a funny story from my time at Apple. I was once at a Town Hall meeting in Cupertino where Steve Jobs commented on this type of wearable computing. An Apple employee in the audience asked Steve a question to the extent of: “How can we reach out to our leadership if we have a really good idea”. Steve immediately put him on the spot and made him pitch the idea in front of everyone there. An opportunity to pitch Steve Jobs. What? The employee proceeded to pitch an idea about glasses you can wear that display various types of information. A heads up display a’la terminator cyborg vision if you will. He continued to explain how he wished he had a way to see projected information while he perhaps went for a run outside. Keep in mind this is happening in a room filled with a lot of people. Steve immediately shot his idea down and told the guy that he would probably trip and fall if that were the case. Steve also suggested he should get a girlfriend so he has someone to keep him company while running. I can not watch this Project Glass video without recalling this moment. So if you’re wondering what Steve would think about Project Glass, that’s pretty much it.
Update: I had a few people ask me when this happened. If I remember correctly this was during the summer of 2007.
Instagram CEO learned to code at night.
Instagram has been acquired by Facebook. This article has some really good info on how the CEO of Instagram, a former day time marketer, spent his nights learning to code. Fellow tech entrepreneurs, it’s time to pick up a practical skill like programming if you haven’t already.
"That’s what’s wrong with PHP."
—http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Google X Offices
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/google-begins-testing-its-augmented-reality-glasses/
When I read this:
Project Glass is one of many projects currently being built inside the Google X offices, a secretive laboratory near Google’s main Mountain View, Calif., campus where engineers and scientists are also working on robots and space elevators.
All I can think about is this scene from Mad Men:
(Source: tianuhea)
