I love Fake Steve Jobs. I really do. I think the swift sharp blade of his pen is something to envy, but sometimes? He gets a little monotonous.
Today I was considering deleting him from my feed, thinking, ah, Steve, I just don’t care about Linux. or Woz. Or SDK. I don’t even care about the iPhone. (Just got a Blackberry, thanks. Although, Calendar? You make me feel old. Why do remind me of Trav’s 3pm bridge meeting every 15 minutes? And why are you even telling me? How do I make you shut up? wtf? GO AWAYYYY!)
Here’s the thing: I’m not a Mac user. Probably never will be. Because me and Profound Transitions in The Way I Do Things? We are not friends. In fact, we’ve made it a rule to try and claw each other’s eyes out whenever we meet. Makes for a really good girl fight and lots of crying.
So, why am I reading you?
Oh yeah. Because sometimes, you write stuff like this:
Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving
(In response to fictional question posed by Google CEO, Dr Eric Schmidt, asking why all his employees are leaving:)
…you make a big deal of only hiring these super-high-IQ kiddies and the fact is that most of them truly are smart, but then you put them into this horribly dull and easy drone work on AdWords and AdSense and they’re all bored to tears and totally disappointed because they really really really thought they were going to do something meaningful with their lives and now they’re just worker bees…
There is something really evil about taking thousands of the world’s smartest young people and using them to sell online text ads more efficiently. Really. Think of all the really interesting and important things that this pool of brainpower could be addressing.
HELL TO THE YEAH, Steve. I just became a reader for life.
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