A computer is just a “bicycle for the mind”

During his Lost Interview in 1990 Steve Jobs describes a
computer as a “bicycle for the mind” because it could make a person more efficient and more effective.

This is such a good metaphor but I'm afraid I still operate at a
walking pace. I don’t use the computer everyday. I still read real books and write checks to pay bills. Perhaps there just isn’t enough of that “insanely great stuff” which needs to be sped along.

Perhaps I put up these speed bumps on purpose…something to think about.

It did occur to me so what is I did treat the computer as a “blank,
white canvas” to see what I come up with.

More to follow…

Steve Jobs...what if?

Reading about Steve Job’s younger life there were so many pieces that could have been different and changed the whole story.

What if the first couple had not decided they wanted a baby girl instead of a boy.

What if the Jobs family had stayed in SF rather than taking job in Palo Alto and moving to the Peninsula, also known as Silicon Valley. Steve was able to join the Hewlett Packard Explorers club where he met working engineers who gave talks on current technology like lasers, holography and desktop computers.

What if he had had another father. Paul Jobs, worked on cars in his garage and was a perfectionist. He had an appreciation for clean design and detailing. A real can-do kind of guy he would buy junk cars, fix them up and sell them for a healthy profit. The money would be used to send Steve to Reed College.

What if he hadn’t gone to Homestead High School where he took an electronics class. It was there he met an older graduate, Stephen Wozniak. They both loved the same music, playing pranks and electronics. Their first collaboration was building Blue Boxes so students can make long distance calls illegally. From there they …well Woz designed and built Apple I…and the rest is history.

So what was Steve Job’s most creative idea and what was his dumbest idea?