extrapolitefoodforthought:

This is great rare Steve jobs interview. He explains how he started Apple and the good and bad decisions he made. 

One particularly good highlight is when he talks about the obsession creative companies have with process as opposed to content, and how this reduces the amount creativity in group.

I just watched (half) of this (I’ll get to the other half tomorrow). I know a lot of people think this man was evil, or just a selfish asshole, but what he did wasn’t for the money, it was for the product. He made the best products he could because they were the products he wanted. This interview took place after he was kicked out of Apple and began NeXT. He was not sure about whether or not he would return to Apple (I think it was only a few months later that he did) so he speaks openly about the company and it is great.

I enjoyed the part where he talks about his trip to Xerox and the 3 things he was shown: Object Oriented Programming (this is huge), networked computers (so big), and graphical user interfaces (GUIs, which is probably the biggest). He says that he only really saw GUIs. He was a man of design, and design is important when it comes to computing. I deal with all three concepts on a daily basis at work. It’s just crazy to think how much this one man affected my life. Seriously, I probably wouldn’t be as into computers without him.