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Visakan Veerasamy Profile picture
@visakanv
Dec 18, 2018 • 17 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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steve jobs said a bunch of really insightful things over the years, but it can be surprisingly tedious to find them because there's so much noise from people over-quoting the inspirational babble. I find myself thinking this a few times a year; probably worth making my own set
currently looking for the quote he has about how it takes time to really get "all of the possible things you can do with a product" inside your head, to have that information among a group of people... what you can do with the glass...
these are some of the better quotes, though still not what i'm looking for

people are really bad at selecting quotes

A people say insightful things, B people quote them (poorly), C people share the most mundane and tepid of those quotes
still looking...
hehe, frito-lay

"Apple is an Ellis Island company. Apple is built on refugees from other companies."

Anybody have an opinion on the best entry point for reading more about Edwin Land?

(still looking for my damn quote about making products, lol)
interesting bits from this interview:

- at age 21, took andy grove out to lunch
- 'one of my role models is bob dylan' – he never stood still
- 'if they keep on risking failure, they're still artists'
- was reading richard feynman re: cancer and death

archive.fortune.com/magazines/fort…
since this is now basically a steve jobs thread, I want to contrast the "wow he sat in an empty room, so zen" picture with a few others
Getting annoyed that I haven’t been able to find this quote yet. 😅 Did I imagine it? Was it someone other than Steve? IIRC he said things like “you can’t defy the laws of physics, there are certain things you can’t do with glass... but eventually you figure out what you can do”
“It’s the meta-data.”
“The whole strategy for Apple now is, if you will, to be the Sony of the computer business.” – Steve Jobs, 1998 archive.fortune.com/magazines/fort…
OK so this is in the *spirit* of the quote I’m looking for – “go hide away with people that really understand the tech, but also really care about the customers, and dream up this next breakthrough”. But... did I hallucinate the extra details? I bet there’s a more recent version
THIS IS ALSO REALLY REALLY CLOSE

Why are you taunting me like this Steve
I am halting today’s search for now
This is a really interesting bit that I bet you’ve never seen unless you’ve watched the entire MIT lecture - Steve (then NeXT CEO) talking about relationships with suppliers
Btw future-Visa (👋🏾) if you’re wondering why I was looking for that quote, it was for this thread
It’s this!!! This is why Twitter rules
It’s interesting that this quote was in 1995 - and you can see the two “almost there” versions of it earlier were from 1985 and 1990 respectively. By following those quotes you can see how Steve refined his thinking about his processes over time

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Feb 26
favorite subreddit I’ve discovered in a long while, /r/thatsabooklight, where people point out the mundane origins of movie props Image
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a lot of futuristic weapons turn out to be painted toys Image
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a lot of futuristic interfaces turn out to be audio/visual equipment Image
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Feb 24
i haven't really bothered to make a deliberate effort to grow my twitter following or to write bangers etc in years, but i still have a clear sense of how to do it and i've advised other people who wanted to do the same, and witnessed them succeed. here are a couple of thoughts
one of the most important things you have to remember, especially if you're still a small account starting out and trying to get more attention, is that people aren't reading your tweets in isolation. your tweets are showing up as a 'beat' on a timeline
so if your tweet is something that's moderately unclear or confusing, or has too many details, or the sentiment is too complex, people's likeliest response is to scroll past it

this changes once people know you, care about you, believe that it's worth the effort to decipher you
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Feb 21
there’s a thing I often wish I could explain to people… but hilariously, it fits the same pattern I’m trying to explain:

a lot of the most interesting, valuable things you can do are things that have very small windows of opportunity Image
so in the case of matchmaking, a beginner matchmaker might think it’s a matter of finding the best possible people (according to some set of metrics) for the best possible people.

but the expert matchmaker will tell you that actually timing and seasonality etc matter more
in something like football you might think that the player with the most stamina, best striking ability, etc is the strongest

but the guy that scores the most goals is typically the guy who is most sensitive to the situation. Messi famously just walks around the pitch Observing Image
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Feb 9
one of the oldest stories we have on record is from 1850BC Egypt called "The Eloquent Peasant". It's fairly short yet interestingly complex. i'll try and retell it as quickly and entertainingly as i can

we begin with our boi Khun-Anup, a poor peasant just tryna sell his wares... Image
to get to the market he has to pass thru land that's owned by nobles. ultimately i believe the land is owned by the pharaoh, but it's administrated by the high steward Rensi, who in turn lets it be run by the local goon Nemtynakht... a ~4000yo matryoshka of bureaucracy Image
so anyway. the local goon Nemtynakht is a corrupt mf and decides to rob our boi Khun-Anup. he lays out a cloth across the narrow path, which is in between a river and the goon's private fields of barley.

Khun-Anup is like, pls sir, I can't move, I don't wanna trample your cloth
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Jan 23
for starters I don’t think you’re selfish for not having children

and kids actually are a joy to have

but if you need a different reason, I really liked what some other couple once said, about wanting to have “a maximum human experience”. I’ll elaborate how I interpreted that
but first again I’ll reiterate that you *don’t* have to have kids. i don’t think it’s something that should be done from a sense of weary obligation. I believe it’s possible to have a meaningful, beautiful life without kids and you should do what feels right for you in your heart
ok so like the first wild thing to me about having kids is that you get to see your own childhood and your own parents from a sort of “exploded perspective” view. it’s like seeing the matrix, the current timeline directly loops over the past and it’s narratively ultra satisfying
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Jan 10
nobody is coming to do an honest audit of your time and energy for you

only you can face the truth of how you are living your life, and whether it’s the life you know in your heart you are actually capable of living
you dont have to do it alone, but nobody else can do it for you
food analogy works decent here

you gotta eat. you dont have to eat alone. but nobody can eat for you

in early childhood we need to be fed

there’s a lot to learn about things like cooking and food prep etc

but nobody can eat for you
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