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回忆史蒂夫·乔布斯
Memories of Steve
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这是前苹果 Safari/WebKit 负责人 Don Melton 的博客文章，回忆他在苹果与史蒂夫·乔布斯共事的经历：与乔布斯开会、汇报产品时的紧张气氛，以及乔布斯的一些恶作剧。文中对乔布斯本人的直接描写其实不多，更多写的是周围人对他的畏惧与恭敬。
为什么经久不衰：它提供了来自一线工程师视角的乔布斯轶事，既有一手细节又带着复杂情绪，且对“魅力型领导”的代价提出了值得反复思考的问题。
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用一个甜甜圈的轶事生动呈现乔布斯对细节和员工生活的强势干预。
1999 或 2000 年前后，史蒂夫刚整顿完食堂人员不久，我拿着一个“下午甜甜圈”（就是主楼咖啡厅早上没卖完、大概打折处理的）走回另一栋楼的办公室。我在走廊里遇到史蒂夫，他盯着我手里的甜甜圈。那时史蒂夫身体很好，而我面色苍白、肥胖（可惜现在还是）。但我拿着甜甜圈很开心。史蒂夫瞪着我，什么也没说，我溜走了。第二天，主园区所有咖啡厅都不再卖甜甜圈了。我不觉得这是巧合。
salgernon查看英文原文
Back in 1999 or 2000, shortly after Steve had rejiggered the cafeteria staff, I was walking back to my office in another building with an "afternoon doughnut" - that is, one that hadn't sold in the morning at the coffee place in the main lobby, and probably sold at a discount. I passed Steve in the hall and he glared at me as I walked with my doughnut. Steve was in great health in those days while I was pasty and obese. (Still am, sad to say.). But I was happy with my doughnut. Steve glared at me but didn't say anything. I slunk away. The next day, there were no more doughnuts at any of the cafés on the main campus. I don't think it's a coincidence.
乔布斯的魅力能让天才们全心追随，这是他成功的关键。
像史蒂夫这样的人似乎有足够的魅力，让极有才华的人完全忠于他。这是一种很棒的性格特质，几乎能保证成功。我们日常生活中都认识像沃兹尼亚克、Bob、Cook 这样的天才，但我们中有多少人能让这些人敬畏自己、为我们的愿景改变人生、并给予我们全部注意力？这就是史蒂夫的过人之处。尽管他性格有缺陷，人们似乎仍觉得为他工作是一种荣幸。
general_failure查看英文原文
It looks like some people like Steve are charismatic enough to get the complete devotion of very talented people. It's a great personality trait to have and pretty much guarantees success. We all know geniuses in our everyday life like Wozniak, Bob, cook. But how many of us can get these guys be terrified of us, make them change their lives for our visin and make them give us their complete attention... That's the beauty of Steve. Despite flaws in his character, people seem to be feel previliged working for him.
指出文章只写了旁人的畏惧与恭顺，却未解释这种畏惧从何而来。
这是一篇古怪又引人入胜的读物，因为它几乎没怎么写到乔布斯本人（无论好坏），写的只是见他的人们的恐惧、谄媚与恭敬。这些故事里没有任何内容解释他们为什么会有这种恐惧和谄媚。显然乔布斯开过一些恶作剧的玩笑，乐趣在于受害者一开始太怕他而不敢承认这是个玩笑。但没有任何线索说明人们一开始为什么会怕他。显然乔布斯问 IE 书签栏长什么样，这家伙就谷歌了一张图。而这竟成了他人生中最惊心动魄却又最终胜利的时刻之一。
goto11查看英文原文
This is a weird and fascinating read since it says almost nothing about Jobs (good or bad), but is only about the fear and fawning and deference of the people meeting him. There is nothing in the stories that explains why they have this fear and fawning. Apparently Jobs made some silly practical jokes where the fun was that the victims were initially too afraid of him to acknowledge the joke. But no hint of why people would be afraid in the first place. Apparently Jobs asked how the IE bookmarks bar looked and this guy googled an image. And this was one of the must harrowing but ultimately triumphant moments of his life.
欣赏乔布斯的成果，但明确表示不愿在他手下工作。
我很高兴乔布斯做了他做的事，因为我和大家一样喜欢苹果产品；但每次读到这类东西，我都意识到，即使是在“改变世界”，我也绝不想为他工作。人生实在太短了。
misiti3780查看英文原文
im glad steve jobs did what he did, because i love my apple products as much as the next person, but everytime i read something like i realize there is no way i would have wanted to work for him even if i was "changing the world". life is simply too short.
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