Mark Healy
David RobertsIn an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
Daniel LakelandHow do I boost this 1 million times?
Becca 🌳🚀🛀@volts.wtf Maybe they don't know how to be happy? It's the only explanation I have. Looking at how they are behaving and what they are saying, they all look miserable AND with their way of living are actively contributing to making their own life more miserable. They are too rich for the money to make a difference, but their policies contribute to other people wanting to literally kill them. What a sorry state of being - if you knew happiness, how could you stand to continue?
Eric Matthes@rlcw @volts.wtf I think the only thing some of these people know how to do to determine the worth of something is to count something: money, users, acquisitions, etc.
Unfortunately, that applies to measuring their own worth and happiness as well. :/
AllyPally@ehmatthes @rlcw @volts.wtf Yes, I think for many of them the money is a way of scoring points. For instance the richest man in the world getting a trillion dollars in pay. That’s not for using, it’s for keeping score.
Kit Rhett Aultman@volts.wtf When I lived in San Jose, I had season tickets to the ballet. Woz gave them so much money they used to keep a spot for him in the cast of The Nutcracker.
I hear he once didn't know what to do with the extra space in his house so he turned it into a tech summer camp for kids.
Bridge&Tunnel Jeff@volts.wtf As a kid who liked computers in the 80s, I'm glad I chose the correct Steve as an example to follow. Woz is a good dude.
Kerry Mitchell 🍁@volts.wtf Seth Rogen’s book ‘Yearbook’ has anecdotes about a lot of famous people, many of them acting in hilariously awful ways, but Rogen really seemed to admire Wozniak.
Amin Girasol@volts.wtf I've been listening to the @ataripodcast interviews from the very beginning. They're all interviews with people who were in one way or another directly or indirectly involved with the rise and fall of Atari: employees, third-party software developers, writers, educators and more. If you're not embedded in Atari history, you won't have heard of any of them. They're a cross-section of people who were in the right place at the right time. They may have had a sudden influx of income, or they may have earned nothing from their association with Atari.
What's striking to me is that again and again I hear interviewees state that they weren't interested in making a fortune and that they feel privileged to have been involved in the birth of personal computing. They have the same attitude as Steve Wozniak. They're just not as rich as he is, so nobody (except @savetz and @floppydays) pays them any attention.
A tiny minority of the interviewees are bitter and entitled narcissists. Their wealth and fame didn't last. These people are like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Andreesen - but they didn't get to become billionaires.
Our idea of what "success" in tech looks like is utterly skewed by the disproportionate attention paid to billionaire narcissists and sociopaths. Who would want to emulate these awful people?
We can learn more about how to be a decent human being from those people who are more accepting of transient wealth, fame or whatever. People who recognise that yes, they worked hard and had skill, but they were also incredibly lucky to ride a particular wave at a particular moment in history, which has passed and will never return.
Talisyn Tailfeather@volts.wtf be like Steve
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George Liquor, American@RealGene @volts.wtf I've said it before and I'll say it again: we'd live in a much more beautiful world if the tech industry had taken more lessons from Steve Wozniak and fewer from Steve Jobs.
Given the choice, we worshiped exactly the wrong Steve--the one who was an arrogant, ego-maniacal, and abusive shit-head. Great job, no notes
Khleedril@volts.wtf Not to spoil a party, but I don't think Woz would have been successful if Jobs hadn't done what he did.
ck@khleedril @volts.wtf sure he would have, in smiles and frowns
leyrer@volts.wtf the 10 mio. help ... ;)
Woefdram@volts.wtf The world needs more Wozzes
Chris [list of emoji]That's the Apple Steve people *should* be emulating.
SonikkuI never sold out either. The problem in my case is that I've been taken for a fool many times, hence I am poor.
I have been promised so many things, none of which ever materialized.
My current gulag is full of these man-children it's literally like going to work at a local junior high.
hairylarryGo Woz!
Tim ChaseThe last time I enjoyed using any Apple hardware/OS, it had the fingerprints of Woz all over it. I was definitely an Apple II fanboi.
But once he departed Apple (around '85?), the culture change was palpable and I no longer had any real interest in or allegiance to the company.
None Hitwonder@volts.wtf never sold out and definitely didn't get rich as part of an exploitative organization that drained the life out of lower workers to create all the profit and wealth he gave away instead of giving to the people that created it for him so he could launder his reputation and soothe his...we'll call it a conscience, I guess.
What a pure blameless little unicorn of a wealthy businessperson. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄