Insights on Building Revolutionary Companies Key Insights First Step The Vision Jobs emphasized the importance of celebrating each step toward a distant goal, with leadership consistently reminding the team they're moving in the right direction. PASSION + PERSISTENCE Jobs believed that a company built with genuine passion and conviction would stay true to its mission, comparing it to a bomber that doesn't deviate from its target. Legacy of Vision Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 and transformed multiple industries through his visionary leadership. After being forced out of…
@Sacca: Hey Jeremy, Eddie Van Halen once came into my record store... Jeremy Person: Yeah big fan @Sacca: And when he went over to the Van Halen section, he saw the Sammy Hagar solo album @Sacca: And he grabbed it and whipped it across the store @Sacca: smashing the case in the process. :) Jeremy Person: Haha, no... @Sacca: true story. 2000 in park city, utah Jeremy Person: And then he just walked out? @Sacca: Adam! Click on the fifth turntable @bennybaltrotsky: come join adam @Sacca: Sweet sweet…
From a Finnish student's hobby project to the backbone of the digital world—how Linux transformed computing and sparked a movement The Linux penguin mascot, Tux, has become an iconic symbol of the open source movement Twenty years ago, a Finnish computer science student named Linus Torvalds made a seemingly modest announcement on an internet newsgroup: he was working on a free operating system as a hobby project. Little did he know that his creation would grow to power everything from smartphones to supercomputers, igniting a revolution that would…
Last weekend it was a cold and wet outside so Christina and I went to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. It probably wouldn't have been Christina's first choice of things to do on a Saturday, but I really had a good time. Truth be told, I think I brought out the inner geek in her, and she had a good time too. The museum itself is great, it starts with the abacus and takes visitors all the way to modern day computing. In some ways…
A Focus on Happiness and Creation My 2011 resolutions this year aren't going to be my typical resolutions. Here are my 2009 and 2010 resolutions. Not that I haven't done this in years past, but in 2011 I'm going to focus on continuing to just being happy. If something doesn't make someone happy, chances are they won't do it. At work I create themes for each year and I think I said this year I want to focus on standardization, but personally I want 2011 to be all…
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