Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech
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He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot).
I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by Kutcher. Even though he's humble and doesn't claim to be an expert, it was borderline freaky how well Kutcher seems to understand Jobs. At least, from the point-of-view of someone who wasn't friends or family.
I consider him an expert.
Related: I like when RapGenius branches out from rap. I wonder if it will always be called RapGenius for non-rap content, or if they'll come up with a more general brand name. I think it'd be neat if RapGenius became as broad as Wikipedia.
I believe they're eventually planning on silos, like Stack Exchange, but are focusing on the main brand initially.
Their thinking could have obviously changed since launch, though.
What do you make of this Wozniak's comments [1]:
"It's so awful and atrocious," said Wozniak,
who said he got access to a copy of the movie's script.
"Unlike the way Steve and I really dealt with each other.
"I didn't want to have much to do with that movie."
news.yc discussion of [1]:
More to the point, Woz has approved of the way people were portrayed in "Pirates of Silicon Valley", including himself.
"It's funny, but even with all the things that aren't said outright, a great number of people, like yourself, saw a lot of things in that movie that are totally true. The personalities were very accurately portrayed."
"The personalities and incidents are accurate in the sense that they all occured but they are often with the wrong parties (Bill Fernandez, Apple employee #4, was with me and the computer that burned up in 1970) and at the wrong dates (when John Sculley joined, he had to redirect attention from the Apple III, not the Mac, to the Apple ][ ) and places (Homebrew Computer Club was at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)."
They appear to have decided to keep it all on the rapgenius.com domain but are calling the different verticals "_____ Genius"
If you hover over 'rap' in the navbar you see a dropdown with the following:
-rock -> links to rock.rapgenius.com
-poetry -> links to poetry.rapgenius.com
-news -> links to news.rapgenius.com
On those subdomains the logo reads 'rock genius' 'poetry genius' or 'news genius'. I checked and they own the .com for each of those as well, which redirect to the subdomains. They also have corresponding Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Tech Genius next please!
Yeah, i think it's pretty trivial for the wikipedia folks to implement a modal popup...
- Job's favorite books - Arts that Jobs liked
Any help/pointers will be appreciated?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2013/05/02/...
A celebrity-signed promotion. Otherwise, we gain practically no new information.
So here's a high-profile investor demonstrating exactly that point, that it can be used beyond rap.
On another side, Jobs going around barefooted and even stinking is a true story. It's really a good material for the movies.