Today we have a very special episode, where Gerhard gets to share his favourite learnings from Steve Jobs. If it wasn’t for his determination to build a better personal computer, Gerhard would have most likely continued with a career in physics.

We know what you’re thinking: it’s crazy and impossible to interview Steve Jobs, but on his 10th memorial anniversary, Gerhard was determined to combine the things that Steve said with his passion for computers, automation, and infrastructure.

Live your life and ship your best stuff because there’s nothing like the present.

Thank you, Steve.

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Featuring

• Steve Jobs – Website
• Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

• Apple - Remembering Steve
• MIT - 100 Years of the Quantum
• University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington State
• Mac OS 9
• iMac G3
• ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
• “Bicycle for the Mind” - Medium blog post by Steven Sinofsky
• Understanding the GitHub flow
• Start with why - How great leaders inspire action, Simon Sinek, TEDxPugetSound
• Ship It! #16 - Optimize for smoothness not speed with Justin Searls
• Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast - Medium blog post by Michael Fisher
• The Mythical Man-Month
• kelseyhightower/nocode
• Changelog #459 - Coding in the cloud with Codespaces with Cory Wilkerson
• NeXTSTEP
• Eliyahu M. Goldratt, 1947 - 2011
• Steven C. Wheelwright
• Jony Ive

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