[HN Gopher] Focusing is about saying no (1997) [video]
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Focusing is about saying no (1997) [video]
Author : dvt
Score : 38 points
Date : 2023-07-13 22:17 UTC (1 days ago)
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| anotherhue wrote:
| >> What about OpenDoc? >> What about OpenDoc? Yeah. [ Applause ]
| What about it? [ Laughter ] It's dead, right? It's dead,
| right? >> I don't know. I spent a lot of time working on it. >>
| Yeah. Well, you know, let me say something that's sort of
| generic. I know some of you spend a lot of time working on stuff
| that we put a bullet in the head of. I apologize. I feel
| your pain. [ Laughter ] But Apple suffered for several
| years from lousy engineering management. I have to say it.
| And there were people that were going off in 18 different
| directions doing arguably interesting things in each one of them.
| Good engineers, lousy management. And what happened was you look
| at the farm that's been created with all these different animals
| going in different directions, and it doesn't add up. The
| total is less than the sum of the parts. And so we had to
| decide what are the fundamental directions we're going in and
| what makes sense and what doesn't. And there were a bunch
| of things that didn't. And microcosmically they might have made
| sense. Macrocosmically they made no sense. And, you know,
| the hardest thing is when you think about focusing, right, you
| think, well, focusing is saying yes, no. Focusing is
| about saying no. Focusing is about saying no. And you've
| got to say no, no, no. And when you say no, you piss off people.
| And they go talk to the San Jose Mercury and they write a shitty
| article about you. [ Laughter ] And it's really a pisser.
| Because you want to be nice, you don't want to tell the San Jose
| Mercury the person is telling you this, you know, just
| was asked to leave or this or that or this or that. So you take
| the lumps. And Apple's been taking their share of lumps
| for the last six months in a very unfair way. And it's
| been taking them, you know, like an adult. And I'm proud of that.
| And there's more to come, I'm sure. There's more to come. I mean,
| some of these, I read these articles about some of these people
| that have left. I know some of these people. They haven't
| done anything in seven years. And, you know, they leave and it's
| like, you know, it's like the company's going to fall
| apart the next day. And so, you know, I think there'll be stories
| like that that come and go. But focus is about saying no.
| And the result of that focus is going to be some really great
| products where the total is much greater than the sum of the
| parts. And OpenDock, I mean, I was for putting a bullet
| in the head of OpenDock. A, I didn't think it was great
| technology. But B, it didn't fit. The rest of the world
| isn't going to use OpenDock. And I think as a container
| strategy, there's some stuff in the Java space that's much
| better. And even the OpenDock guys were basically trying
| to rewrite the whole thing in Java anyway, which was a restart.
| So it didn't make sense. ywhisper() {
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| nivertech wrote:
| Is whisper better than YouTube's builtin transcription?
| jph00 wrote:
| Yes much better.
| pcdoodle wrote:
| Hands down my favorite CEO of all time. RIP Steve.
| DonHopkins wrote:
| The body language of that unrehearsed discussion is incredible.
|
| https://donhopkins.medium.com/focusing-is-about-saying-no-st...
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| This is a hand made transcription I wrote of the video, with
| gesture and body language annotations and snapshots, because they
| were so much a part of what he meant to convey!
|
| Prime example:
|
| https://donhopkins.medium.com/focusing-is-about-saying-no-st...
|
| >And so I think (hands on hips) there'll be stories like that
| that come and go (pulls up pants), but focus is about saying no
| (Clinton thumb).
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gestures
|
| >Clinton thumb. The gesture dubbed the "Clinton thumb" after one
| of its most famous users, Bill Clinton, is used by politicians to
| provide emphasis in speeches. This gesture has the thumb leaning
| against the thumb-side portion of the index finger, which is part
| of a closed fist, or slightly projecting from the fist. An
| emphatic, it does not exhibit the anger of the clenched fist or
| pointing finger, and so is thought to be less threatening.[15]
| This gesture was likely adopted by Clinton from John F. Kennedy,
| who can be seen using it in many speeches and images from his
| political career.[15]
| pcdoodle wrote:
| If you want to watch the whole conference in better quality:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ16_YxLbB8
| nier wrote:
| The intro video for the WWDC 2013 keynote also drives this point
| home. https://youtu.be/JsBrI_ftKXw
|
| If I remember correctly there should be another video of Steve
| where he stresses the point that focusing actually means saying
| no to great ideas. That's an important qualifier missing in the
| linked WWDC 1997 video.
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