Jim Parsons Digital Shoebox

Steve Jobs didn't...

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• Steve Jobs did not create products. He created an organization that predictably and reliably created emotionally resonant products.

• Steve Jobs did not make movies. He made a company that predictably and reliably made blockbusters.

• Steve Jobs did not wrest market share from competitors. He created new markets that attracted and sustained competitors.

• Steve Jobs did not design anything. He gave others the freedom to think about what jobs products are hired to do.

• Steve Jobs did not re-engineer processes. He brought engineering processes to works of creativity and the creative process to engineering.

• Steve Jobs did not develop new management theories. He showed by example that innovation can be managed.

• Steve Jobs was not a visionary. He put the dots together and saw where they led.

• Steve Jobs was not a futurist. He just built the future one piece at a time.

• Steve Jobs did not distort reality. He spoke what he believed would become reality at a time when those beliefs seemed far fetched.

• Steve Jobs was not charismatic. He spoke from the heart compelling others to follow him.

• Steve Jobs was not a gifted orator. He spoke plainly.

• Steve Jobs was not a magician. He practiced, a lot.


He had taste.
He was curious.
He was patient.
He was foolish.
He was hungry.


These things many others can do. Maybe you can.


-- Horace Dediu
@asymco
http://www.asymco.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-didnt/

This was only a matter of time...


“Wow, you have some beautiful balls,” Terry Rialto (Molly Shannon) tells Pete Schweddy (Alec Baldwin) in a classic NPR spoof sketch Delicious Dish on Saturday Night Live.

Now, Mr. Schweddy’s mouth-watering balls have found their way into Ben & Jerry’s latest ice cream flavor: “Schweddy Balls.” The news has sent Twitter users into a frenzy; the ice cream was a trending topic on the service Thursday.

The new flavor name may seem a risky one for any company. But Twitter users’ response was mostly positive and light-hearted, according to sentiment data Topsy, a social search startup, shared with Mashable.

More than 44% of the first 27,508 tweets about the new flavor either expressed amusement, included exclamations of an intent to buy the flavor or offered a jovial double entendre. Forty-six percent of tweets were neutral, and just under 10% tweets were of the negative variety.

(via Mashable)