This anal perfectionism is what drove people like Steve Jobs at Apple Computer. Jobs was known for a compulsion for making industrial design as obvious and user-friendly as possible. He will be remembered for wanting to make his products as simple as possible; he once said “you have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential[i].”
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In Silicon Valley a nobody can get coffee with a somebody, given they are persistent. The walls are permeable. One reason the culture of Silicon Valley enables this is fear of Moore’s Law. Since technology, whether it is getting smaller, faster, or cheaper is doubling every eighteen months or so, technologists like those in Silicon Valley know the best time to develop a competing product is tomorrow--not the metaphorical tomorrow, as in when we get to it, nooooo, tomorrow as in 24 hours from now.
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