Does that sound like some real depth?
This part "known for taking LSD, living with monks and yogis in India, visiting the Hari Krishna temples, visiting the Zen Buddhist temples" basically describes any self-respecting hipster hippie in the late 60s/early 70s. There were even bus services that catered to the market, and many celebs at the time (most famously The Beatles) did the same:
Steve was deep into a specific lineage that went from Kodo Sawaki (the 'Homeless Kodo') to Kobun Chino Otogawa, who was Steve’s long-time mentor and even did his wedding. Sawaki was famous for being a total rebel; he had a column in the Asahi Shimbun in the late '60s filled with these blunt aphorisms that basically told people to stop being so full of themselves. You can definitely see that 'no-BS' attitude in Steve's approach. He also used meditation as a way to work through problems.
I would recommend this book, 'The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo,' which features Kodo's aphorisms and various levels of commentary:https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Zen-Teaching-of-Homel...
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Even after Jobs started paying more attention to Brennan-Jobs, her mother, Chrisann Brennan, apparently felt uncomfortable leaving him with her alone after an incident in which he questioned and teased the then-9-year-old Brennan-Jobs about her sexual attractions and proclivities.
When Brennan went to live with him as a teen, he forbade her from seeing her mother for 6 months. After moving in with them, Brennan told her stepmother, Laurene Powell-Jobs, that she felt lonely and asked that they tell her goodnight in the evenings... Powell-Jobs responded, "We're cold people."
Once, as Jobs groped his wife and pretended to be having sex with her, he demanded that Brennan stay in the room, calling it a "family moment." He repeatedly withheld money from her, told her that she would get "nothing" from his wealth — and even refused to install heat in her bedroom.
When she started to become active in her high school, Jobs got on Brennan for not spending more time with the family, telling her, "This isn't working out. You're not succeeding as a member of this family."
At one point, neighbors of the family were so worried about Brennan that they helped her move into their house. They also helped her pay for college.
"""https://finance.yahoo.com/news/memoir-steve-jobs-apos-daught...
The above is not just normal faults of the magnitude we all have, instead they're pretty strong indications that jobs was a terrible person. He was probably a narcissist.
> We can certainly still learn from them, instead of casually dismissing them when we find an instance that they don't live up to our pedestal.
There are different kinds of "learning from people," I'd recommend not "learning from" Jobs like he's a guru to be admired, but that's what a lot of people do.
We should admire and learn from good people, and the lesson to learn from Jobs is terrible people can be successful, and not to confuse success for goodness.
> We can certainly still learn from them, instead of casually dismissing them when we find an instance that they don't live up to our pedestal.
He was brilliant when it came to the creation and rejuvenation of Apple, his famous Reality Distortion Field, and his insight into the power and direction of technology.
We can acknowledge Jobs the Digital Guru while recognizing that Jobs the man was not a good person.
That's why they win.
We can admire people in some areas while also acknowledging their tremendous faults in other areas.
"gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha"
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/35081740734601...
(And this was from the vantage point of Kansas. Christ, California must have been out of this world in the 70's.)
https://github.com/kl4yfd/timewave_z3r0
https://github.com/jasondrawdy/Omniwave
Now point that to 12th August, 2026 to see it's there's some relation. The lower the Y point = the more the 'novelty'.
It's a bit of crackpot science but that would just mean most of the humanity behaviour from genomics it's highly predictable except for some cosmetics and newer knowledge.
You can see these patterns in big human gatherings. And under bird flocks.
The more people you connect, the less individuality you'll get, as some unique behaviour will emerge from few leaders, as if they were tied to virtual strings/chains.
Also: this is entirely crazy:
Title:Matter-wave interference with particles selected from a molecular library with masses exceeding 10000 amu
https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8343
TL;DR: Apparenting separate system behaving as a single one. Like birds without colliding into themselves while flying.