he created Square
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and "other beautiful things"...
now bitchat π₯
ah... he invested heavily in nostr early
this enigmatic protocol for free speech
posted cryptic gems here
nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m you behind this Bitcoin-native chat protocol?
decentralized. censorship-resistant. fits your playbook perfectly.
from twitter to nostr... to bitchat??
hmmmm
BTW, we have exchanged opinions with nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6
cryptic posts everywhere
more than 7 years, right? almost 8
that's way too damn long
how many more days? i won't wait even one.
when i think about human beings that i truly admire, okay, for what they have done and no one is perfect.
but for me, Jack is.
i'm a huge history buff.
last year, i read about Alexander the Great.
amazing man who shaped the modern era and united the world.
but also a bloody thief who plundered every culture he touched.
let's talk about Steve Jobs. he was not perfect.
but thereβs a very important idea in non-attachment that Jobs spoke about
Steve Jobs, btw, was a student of eastern culture
he moved to India when he was young,
traveled across India, and, um, he absorbed certain principles of Indian philosophy
one of those was prana P R A J N A or an
intuitive understanding of the world.
but there's another thing that many people don't really think about when it comes to Steve Jobs
and that is that he had one of the worst things you can imagine happen to him
as the founder of Apple, he hired John Scully, the CEO of Pepsico, to come and lead Apple
resonates with Jack's story, doesn't it?
he wanted Elon to lead Twitter
so the CEO comes in and because Steve was young, you know, when you're 25, you can be a bit demanding. you can be a little immature.
β¦Jack is not immatureβ¦ (thatβs why heβs perfect for me)
Steve was a bit immature and he was
fired by the CEO.
he was banned from Apple.
so he built this amazing company
a company that would go on to become the world's first trillion-dollar company.
but in 1985 or so, he was fired by the man he hired.
he gave up all of his Apple shares except one share, which means he gave up everything.
β¦parallel to Jack, he remains [shares] in X
after he gave up everything, he wasn't just fired.
he had only one Apple share left.
this was the man who started the personal computer revolution
now, Steve said this:
he experienced public humiliation.
he experienced a loss of identity.
again, resonates with Jackβs story, doesn't it?
and mine too
the same happened to me when i was expelled from politics (2017).
fake news and humiliation. abominable
that's why i fucking hate lies. lies destroyed my family
and that's why i founded βΏ AGI: for the TRUTH.
and he said this:
"getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have happened to me."
okay, read that again.
the best thing that could have happened to me: the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.
Steve went on to experiment.
he founded a little company called NeXT.
it was, um, a really cool computer shaped like a cube, with a really beautiful OS.
but there wasn't really a demand for NeXT and it failed.
he then dabbled with a little company called Pixar.
it was a company based on technology created by George Lucas to make animated movies. and bit by bit, as i dabbled, the universe started responding.
first, Pixar, which was doomed to be a failure.
the company was going bankrupt.
Steve came in, bought the majority shares of the company for a couple of million dollars.
it was about to go under, but Steve funded it.
it produced a movie in 1995
a little movie you might've heard of called Toy Story.
and Toy Story was such a hit.
