In Monday's #SOTD, I profiled a brilliant Steve Jobs interview from 1985.
Yesterday's storytelling theme was Steve's ability to discern patterns and provide concrete examples.
Today's theme: Jobs' ability to understand historical context and come up with relevant analogies from the past
You get the impression that Jobs is a brilliant, almost obsessive student of his field. He knows the historical context of the industry as well as general business history. Frequently he launches into historical analogies of what makes the computing revolution special.
For instance, David is sceptical of home users having to invest $3,000 in 1985 for something which did not have a lot of utility then:
Fascinating analogy between the telegraph-telephone and the IBM PC and Macintosh.
It's not just stuff related to computers. Jobs also shares the reason for Silicon Valley becoming the world's premier tech hub:
Having an interest in the historical context of your industry (including its geography) is very useful in being able to come up with the right analogies for present day events.
#SOTD 58
Ravi
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