Steve Jobs
When you give a Powerpoint presentation, or any sort of presentation, for that matter, it's always nice to know that you did a great job. Especially when you put in 12+ hours into a 15 slide presentation of which 8 of the slides are pictures and or short snippets of text. However, being compared to an egomaniac that rules his company with an iron fist, as well as being a complete mental headcase is something completely different. Don't get me wrong, I love giving presentations about things I'm truly interested in and/or things that will change the future. I just don't like being compared to someone who is more insane than me.
Personally, I am terrified of Steve Jobs. I am. I've heard way too much about him to even want to be in the same room as him. Why? Because he's the Hare Krishna meets Great Buddha meets Free Thinking gone horribly wrong.
Now you're probably wondering, "Why would Will hate the creator of the iPod and the face of the technological future?" Here's why.
Steve Jobs is insane. Mentally and physically insane.
If one of the rules regarding company policy and inter-departmental communication is "Never look your head honcho in the eyes", there's a tip. At Apple, when you are to become an intern, they have a 3-4 day orientation period, of which day 1 is "Steve Jobs Day", where you learn ALL about your dear leader boss. You learn not to look him in the eyes, to tell him you're an intern, and that Steve LOVES interns.
Also, if you ask people on a DAILY basis "Who are you and why shouldn't I fire you?", your ego is eating itself. You need psychiatric help for that kind of nonsense.
Mark Zuckerburg
I admit, I have my moments where I am unable to accurately put the millions of thoughts in my head into one complete, grammatically correct, sentence. However, that does not make me an asshole CEO who invades people's privacy, and has no people skills.
If you don't know it already, I have around 10 trains of thought going in my head at any point in time. Sometimes more, sometimes less. These trains are all on their own thought process, leaving me with interesting responses in meaningful conversations:
"Are you bringing your camera, tomorrow, Will?"
"Yeah, I'm bringing my fish." [me]
"...Your fish?"
"Huh? What about a fish?" [me]
"You just said you're bringing your fish."
"No I didn't. We were talking about cameras." [me]
This happens a lot. It does. I don't mean for it to happen, but it does. My mind races so quick that it causes me to stutter. It drives me up the wall. But I digress.
I am not Mark Zuckerburg. I have people skills. I can talk to people and not have 10 billion broken responses and promises all loaded together in a cluster of fail. I am a human being, not a Zuck.
And if "The Social Network" has taught us anything, NEVER trust someone who has a business card that says "I'm CEO, bitch."
Good night, internets. May Wednesday be fruitful for you. FFFFFF no.
Still waiting for that fateful day that Zuckerberg goes, "Fuck it" and sells all of our personal data to some (or many) advertising agency/ies. Best part: We can't do anything about it if/when it does happen! Betterest part: The US Gov't seems to have disregarded the Constitution to such a degree at this point in history, I wouldn't worry too much, as they simply would not let it happen.
ReplyDeleteThe Constitution is not a black and white sort of thing. The US Gov't interprets the Constitution as they please, seeing as it requires interpreting by the Supreme Court.
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