- Apple's "Lisa" was the first consumer computer with a graphical user
interface.
- "The Internet? We are not interested in it." – Bill Gates, 1993
On Oct 11, 2:43 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Kristopher Wright<http://www.quora.com/digest/track_click?url=%2FKristopher-Wright&dige...>,
> Film Maker
> Founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, passed away today. I never met the man
> personally and now I never will. I only had one semi-personal interaction
> with Steve Jobs and I thought it was a good time to share it.
>
> Before I met the wife I had a girlfriend named Rebecca. Rebecca had
> non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It was a rough time in her life and she was very
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> Rebecca was a big fan of Pixar films. I knew Steve Jobs had also been
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> Anne K. Halsall<http://www.quora.com/digest/track_click?url=%2FAnne-K.-Halsall&digest...>,
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> I've been an Apple devotee all my life. I grew up on the products of Mr.
> Jobs's imagination. I wrote BASIC on an Apple //e, I composed poetry on a
> Mac Plus, I learned Photoshop on a Performa, I chatted with friends on a
> blueberry iMac, I played games on a G4 cube, I took lecture notes on an
> iBook, I created websites with a MacBook, I designed educational software
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>
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> Jason Crawford<http://www.quora.com/digest/track_click?url=%2FJason-Crawford&digest_...>,
> Amazon employee 2004–2007
> Some key pieces:
>
> - *Visionary leadership: *Jeff Bezos built an online retailer before most
> people knew what the Internet was. He was talking about what he called the
> "machine-to-machine Web" before the term "web services" was even coined.
> - *Customer focus:* Amazon is driven by serving customers and creating
> value for them, not by beating competitors or by winning any piece of some
> pre-existing market. This helps keep them focused on a consistent strategy (
> http://www.gsb.stanford.**edu/news...<http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/vftt_bezos.shtml>)
> and prevents them from wasting resources on me-too or copy...
>
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> I'd like to take you down another path.
>
> All means of production of food in the United States and elsewhere are a
> drain on the ecosystem in one way or another. Modern societies produce,
> transport, and consume food as a commodity, which means all steps along the
> way are tailored to be as cheap and as fast as possible.
>
> Producing rice, soy, and beans, staples of a vegan diet, requires massive
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