Youâve Got To Find What You Love
Youâve Got To Find What You Love
Link naar filpje van Steve Jobs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Mooi stukje van Decor8 (thx!)over Steve Jobs:
-Itâs no secret that Apple founder, Steve Jobs, passed away. Itâs a trending topic on Twitter, bloggers are busily tapping on keys to express their condolences and newspapers have plastered the sad news all over websites and on their printed pages. I wondered before writing this post what the point would be for me to chime in, just another voice, why would it matter?
Sure, I use Apple products daily but have always been equally loyal to the PC and never understood the need to pick one over the other because both have their place. Thatâs why this post isnât about Apple (the product) or how much I love and rely on my iPhone, rather itâs about how important I think it is to find what you love, have courage, possess talent and then act on it just like the brilliant man the world just lost to cancer.
Have you ever read the text of Steve Jobsâ commencement address to Stanford University? I watched the video years ago and was so touched and inspired by his words and thought that if youâve not watched it already that now is a good time to do so. Here is the link, itâs a really good way to spend just over 14 minutes of your life. Some points from it that Iâd like to share and discuss are below. Perhaps you feel the same or would like to chime inâŚ
* âNone of this (taking a random calligraphy class in school) had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.â â Steve Jobs.-
RIP Steve Jobsâs
Logo door Jonathan Mak
over Design:
On Design
âWe think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didnât build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We werenât going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
When youâre a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, youâre not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. Youâll know itâs there, so youâre going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.â [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]
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âDesign is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, itâs really how it works. The design of the Mac wasnât what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what itâs all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people donât take the time to do that.
âCreativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didnât really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. Thatâs because they were able to connect experiences theyâve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that theyâve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.
âUnfortunately, thatâs too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry havenât had very diverse experiences. So they donât have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader oneâs understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. [Wired, February 1996]
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