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Who says Twitter is all about doom-scrolling and hate-spewing? Some of the best #SOTD discoveries for me have come from my Twitter feed.
Yesterday, I came across an interview of Steve Jobs - from 1985, when he was all of 29-years old. It is a stunningly prescient conversation and a great case study in clarity of thought, communication and also interviewing skills!
This entire week, I will profile various storytelling elements I spotted in that interview. (Fair warning: At about 15,000 words, it is a long one. Almost one-fifth the size of a typical book!)
Today's theme from the interview: Steve Jobs' ability to spot the story - as in what surprising thing would have a massive impact on the future
Remember, this interview happened in 1985 - the world was far, far away from any concept of the ubiquity of the personal computer and the emergence of the internet.
Naturally, the interviewer (a brilliant guy called David Sheff, who himself was just around 30-years old then) was sceptical about the potential of computers to take over the world.
Here are some of his questions and Steve's stunningly prescient response:
Remarkable for a 29-year old talking about the internet in 1985. It demonstrates a strong ability to separate the signal from the noise. The variance from the norm.
I wonder: If Steve Jobs were alive, what would he have opined about today's cutting edge technology?
#SOTD 56
Ravi
PS: Here is the context for #SOTD and the 'Ultimate Guide to Storytelling Techniques' framework I use - in case you joined this series late! Here is the archive of previous posts. Click here to subscribe.
A Storytelling Coach More details here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravishankar-iyer/
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