RE: Last days if 202216 Nov 2022 07:49
I am always grateful to Savvy and Peak, and sincerely, all the others who contribute regularly here, for their insight, research and their gentlemanly approach. Something, for me, came together recently reading their pieces. I recently watched the brilliant ‘lost’ interview of Steve Jobs by Robert Cringely. (I would urge anyone to watch, what I believe is a truly inspirational interview of an artist, https://allaboutstevejobs.com/videos/misc/triumph_of_the_nerds_interview_1995
Bearing in mind this was 1995, he says “As you know, about 15% of the goods and services in the US are sold via catalogs over the television. All that's going to go on the web and more. Billions and billions, soon tens of billions of dollars worth of goods and services are going to be sold on the web.” Those years spent in prep school were not entirely wasted, Saturday morning Latin and Greek study helped me to later see the 'Music of the Spheres', that Pythagoras and his followers thought that celestial bodies made music, harmony, that there was physical and poetic order of the universe. Pythagoras was known for saying, “There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”
Reading the detail and descriptions of AZ’s vision here I am reminded of Crigely’s question to Jobs, was he a Hippie or a Nerd. He said in the early days of Apple everyone he worked with was a hippie. “There's another side of the coin that we don't talk about much. And - and we experience it when there's gaps, when we kind of just aren't really, when everything's not ordered and perfect. When there's kind of a gap, you experience this inrush of something. And a lot of people have sought off throughout history, to find out what that was. You know, whether it's Thoreau, or whether it's, you know, some Indian mystics or whoever it might be. And the hippie movement got a little bit of that, and they wanted to find out what that was about. And that life wasn't about what they saw their parents doing. And of course the pendulum swung too far the other way, and it was crazy, but there was a germ of something there.” He said it was the same thing that made people want to be poets instead of bankers.
I think AZ is a hippie. You only have to look at his hair! I think he is a poet with a vision and you can see the music and that ‘other’ thing in the germ of his ideas. He wants, not just another fintech solution, he’s not interested in just the money, he wants the poetry in the system.
If AZ is 10% of the genius of Jobs then we are all going to be very very rich.
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