Reading Reflection No.1
For this reflection, I chose to read Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs.
- The thing that most surprised me was the fact that Steve Jobs’s trip to India influenced his decision to adopt a minimalistic approach. The thing that I admire the most about Steve Jobs is that he didn’t show much interest in material things, other than Sports cars and German knives. The thing I least admire about Steve Jobs is that his harassing and bullying behavior towards his colleagues. Steve Jobs was kicked out of his own company due to his behavior and in return he created Pixar. Surprisingly, Pixar made Jobs a millionaire and not Apple.
- The main competency that I noticed in Jobs is his ability to get things done no matter how complex it was to do it.
- The one that confuses me the most is why he chose to keep such a closed integrated system instead of giving users the options to customize.
- If I had the opportunity to ask two questions, the first one would be how hard it was to get over his addiction to LSD and the second one would be how he came up with the idea of reality distortion field. I would ask these questions because firstly I see many teenagers abusing drugs these days and secondly to learn how he thinks so different as compared to others.
- I believe that Steve Jobs believed in Working Smart and not just hard. I completely agree with Jobs's opinion of working smart and not just hard.
Hi Toshi,
ReplyDeleteYour reading reflection really surprised me that Steve Jobs had done LSD. I also really enjoyed your answer to the hard work question because it was different. I thought it was a very good perspective to not only be willing to work hard but also to try and work smarter as much as possible which would eliminate some of the work needed.