Jobs and doing stuff
Oct. 6th, 2011 01:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ordinalI am not one for heroes, but the what I took from Apple under Steve Jobs was that one could be both an artist and a geek, creative and also technically skilled - not like I'd been taught at school, where you were a thinker or a doer and nothing in-between. Coding was just a medium like any other, and being good at it meant you could be a better artist in that medium.
And this taught me that there was a _point_ to all of this tinkering, and it wasn't just something that was supposed to help with getting a job or be fun for its own sake - it could produce something worthwhile and expressive and real.
So now, I think "it's a shame that he's dead - I wish that hadn't happened. So. Where was I with that code again?"
And this taught me that there was a _point_ to all of this tinkering, and it wasn't just something that was supposed to help with getting a job or be fun for its own sake - it could produce something worthwhile and expressive and real.
So now, I think "it's a shame that he's dead - I wish that hadn't happened. So. Where was I with that code again?"
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Date: 2011-10-06 01:40 am (UTC)- Rhianon Jameson