Highlights of Apple's past: "Steve Jobs's practical distortion"

Realistic distortion force field 1981. 02

Bud described Jobs' unique talent

 

On Thursday afternoon, I officially joined the Mackintosh project, and my new supervisor, the only software engineer prior to my arrival, Bud trileber, was just out of office. He was suspended from his Ph.D. program, so occasionally, you must go back to Seattle to retain your student status.

Bud usually comes to work after lunch, so I will only see him for the first time on Monday afternoon next week. Let's talk about what we should do first. It sounds really scary. He asked me to see the formal software development schedule. The official release date is in early January 1982 10 months later.

I told him: "Bud, this is too exaggerated. We have barely started, and it is impossible to finish it at that time ."

"I know ." He answered in a whisper.

"You know! If you know that the schedule is incorrect, why not fix it ?"

"Well, for the sake of Steve Jobs, he insisted that we should go public in early 1982 and did not accept any redisclaims. The best adjective to describe this situation is to apply Star Trek) steve Jobs has a real distortion field."

"What ?"

"Realistic distortion field. When he is present, the reality can be changed. He can convince everyone of almost everything. When he was not present, the force field began to weaken, making it difficult to set a realistic schedule. In addition, you should know something when working with Steve Jobs ."

"What else ?"

"He told you that something is very bad or great, but it doesn't mean that he thought so the next day. Don't be too serious about his comments. In addition, his views on ideas are very different from those of ordinary people. If you tell him a new idea, he will usually tell you this idea is stupid. But if he really liked this idea, he would come back to give you your idea in a week, as if he had come up with it ."

I thought bud was exaggerating, and I did not believe it until a few weeks later that I witnessed the influence of Steve Jobs. The so-called "reality distortion force field" is an audio-visual obfuscation ability formed by an urgent desire to meet the goal by combining the expression of an endless stream, extraordinary willpower, and distorted facts. If a speech is unconvincing, he will cleverly change the way. Sometimes he will suddenly settle on his own point of view, denying his different ideas, and disturbing you. But the magic is that even if you know the existence of the distortion field of reality, it is still very effective, although the effect will gradually disappear as soon as Steve Jobs leaves. We often discuss how to crack him (see "Do you really want to do this?") ), But we didn't give up for a long time, simply taking it as the mysterious power of nature.

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