Jony Ive may be a brilliant designer, and he may have assembled a brilliant team. They very well may be enjoying having every tool at their disposal to create anything they could ever dream of. I don’t doubt it. But Jony himself does not strike me as a person who ever really liked computers.
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Sam Altman has built an entire business around theft.
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Both of these men are made for each other in the worst way imaginable. They both seemingly have a disdain for computers. None of what they spoke about in that ten-minute masturbatory video showed any ounce of wonder and amazement for what humans are able to do with computers. I don’t think these men are here to save us.
The first step is to realize that the subway stops here. Up to this point in life, most of you have been rolling on train tracks. Elementary school, middle school, high school, college—it was always clear what the next stop was. In the process you’ve been trained to believe something that’s not true: that all of life is train tracks. And there are some jobs where you can make it stay like train tracks if you want, but really today is the last stop.
Above all, the Monopoly case opens the question of who should get credit for an invention, and how. Most people know about the Wright brothers – who filed their patent on the same day as Lizzie Magie – but don’t recall the other aviators who also sought to fly. The adage that success has many fathers, but we remember only one, rings true – to say nothing of success’s mothers.
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This torment has a name in cognitive science: the “taste-skill discrepancy.” Your taste (your ability to recognize quality) develops faster than your skill (your ability to produce it). This creates what Ira Glass famously called “the gap”" but I think of it as the thing that separates creators from consumers.
Watch a child draw. They create fearlessly, unselfconsciously, because they have not yet developed the curse of sophisticated taste! They draw purple trees and flying elephants with the confidence of someone who has never been told that trees aren’t purple, that elephants don’t fly. But somewhere around age eight or nine, taste arrives like a harsh critic, and suddenly the gap opens. The child can see that their drawing doesn’t match the impossible standard their developing aesthetic sense has conjured.
This really resonates with me. I feel like I have a childlike sense of adventure around creating, and not much fear of failing. But my persistence on particular projects or efforts needs more work in order to reach the taste that I can envision for them.
Usborne has been publishing award-winning computer books since the 1980s, and we’re happy to offer free pdfs of these books to download.
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Many of today’s tech professionals were inspired by the Usborne computing books they read as children. The books included program listings for such iconic computers as the ZX Spectrum, the BBC Micro and the Commodore 64, and are still used in some computer clubs today.