Feel free to record your thoughts after watching "Silicon Valley Legends".
rebellious
As far as I'm concerned, a big tradition in computers so far is rebellious and anti-traditional. This is how the movie shows how people are on the fringes of society. Jobs doesn't need to say much. He takes psychedelic drugs, goes to India to practice, does not take a bath, and only eats vegetarian food. How to rebel. So is Bill Gates, a sloppy, sloppy life, who only knows computers and entrepreneurship, and finally retired directly from Harvard. Before their success, they were more of a fringe in society than an image recognized by the mainstream (though, however, Bill Gates is rich).
However, the rebelliousness of Jobs and Gates is different. Although Jobs is rebellious but charming, he belongs to the kind of dazzling "non-mainstream". But Gates' rebelliousness is unpleasant. Bill Gates in the movie has always had a gloomy and melancholy temperament (although he is good at calculating), and after he became a rich man, he still didn't know how to go to beautiful girls. Dating, and being hated by the object of the conversation.
Outside of movies, the counterattack and rebellion of the marginalized have always been an important force in the development of computers. After Microsoft's success, it did not monopolize the server market. Instead, it was defeated by the open source model - Linux, which was opposed by the mainstream Microsoft. Bill Gates once wrote a letter to denounce the open source model for making those full-time developers who concentrate on their work unable to get due compensation. On the contrary, Windows made by full-time developers is full of loopholes, while Linux written by enthusiasts for free is far better than Windows Server on the server side. And in the contemporary era, the virtual currency invented by those on the fringes of the network a decade ago represents a Bitcoin that is worth tens of millions of times its original value. Perhaps in a corner that you and I can't see, invisible innovation is being brewed...
essentialism
In the film, Woz asked Jobs to share the stock with the little friends who built the computer with them in the garage, but Jobs did not respond. This thing is really cruel, so the movie also says that Woz is the brake of the company and Jobs is the accelerator, so that these two entrepreneurial partners can achieve each other.
Did Steve Jobs not understand the world? Obviously he knows that. He has built an assembly workshop from a garage into a company that can change the world, attracting investment, and organizing and managing the company. Which step is less sophisticated in the middle? But why is he unwilling to even give some stock to his original entrepreneurial colleagues? I think it's more that he feels the harm outweighs the good. On the one hand, he has always maintained a cooperative relationship with Woz, the two are co-founders of Apple, because he knows Woz's ability and criticality; on the other hand He also knew that the other "colleagues" in the garage at the time (I wrote this because this kind of treatment is really not a partner) actually didn't play any role in entrepreneurship, and maybe other people could complete their work, so He chose to ignore these people.
And he must have been well aware that Woz's character would not sit idly by, and the end result was that Woz gave his stock to his fellow entrepreneurs in the garage. And Jobs just didn't say a word the whole time, focused on what was more important to him, and things worked out automatically (though he was criticized for it).
Frankenstein
Jobs' first child was Lisa, and the first graphical interface computer he was in charge of was also called Lisa. Both Lisa's fathers were Jobs. It's just that one is a human and the other is a machine.
When the movie was put on Jobs refusing to admit that Lisa was her daughter, there was a barrage of criticism, and I wondered if Jobs was just jealous that her daughter knew her biological parents, and at that time, Jobs had already been questioned by this question. troubled for more than 20 years.
Apple and its products (Mac, iPod, iPhone) are undoubtedly Jobs' children, and the concept of children is undoubtedly confusing to Jobs because he doesn't know where his real parents are. This may be what makes him avoid talking to people he is close to and use products to materialize this relationship, because he also needs the opportunity to practice and take control. The Steve Jobs shown in Becoming Jobs is real and full of humanity, but that humanity also coexists with his inexperience and fear. We always demand that idols be perfect, but it may be the opposite, because idols have as exaggerated shortcomings as their advantages that give them the right to live as human beings.
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