[New post] Today’s Must-Read Explains Steve Jobs

mikecane posted: "Narcos Lessons I couldn't help thinking about Steve Jobs while reading that. And the next two quotes from it. EVERYTHING'S NEGOTIABLE If you don't have the chutzpah to ask for the unthinkable, you're not dreaming big enough. Here is the young Ste" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Mike Cane's xBlog Today’s Must-Read Explains Steve Jobs by mikecane Narcos Lessons I couldn't help thinking about Steve Jobs while reading that. And the next two quotes from it. EVERYTHING'S NEGOTIABLE If you don't have the chutzpah to ask for the unthinkable, you're not dreaming big enough. Here is the young Steve Jobs, possibly just thirteen, a member of the HP Explorers Club, from Walter Isaacson's biography: The kids in the Explorers Club were encouraged to do projects, and Jobs decided to build a frequency counter, which measures the number of pulses per second in an electronic signal. He needed some parts that HP made, so he picked up the phone and called the CEO. "Back then, people didn't have unlisted numbers. So I looked up Bill Hewlett in Palo Alto and called him at home. And he answered and chatted With me for twenty minutes. He got me the parts, but he also got me a job in the plant where they made frequency counters." Jobs Boldfaced emphasis added by me. And wait. There's more: His work mainly consisted of "just putting nuts and bolts on things" on an assembly line. There was some resentment among his fellow line workers toward the pushy kid who had talked his way in by calling the CEO. "I remember telling one of the supervisors, 'I love this stuff, I love this stuff," and then asked him What he liked to do best. And he said, 'To fuck, to fuck." Jobs had an easier time ingratiating himself with the engineers who worked one floor above. "They served doughnuts and coffee every morning at ten. So I'd go upstairs and hang out with them." Boldfaced emphasis added by me. And people think the primary lesson Steve Jobs learned from his father was doing quality work. Oh hell no. I found the one sentence that explains Jobs. Read more of this post mikecane | September 10, 2015 at 12:14 pm | Categories: Reference | URL: http://wp.me/p11VgL-hzw Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Mike Cane's xBlog. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/todays-must-read-explains-steve-jobs/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com