Larry Ellison, "It struck me that there wasn't furniture good enough for Steve in the world. He'd rather have nothing if he couldn't have perfection."
Ed Riddle, an early Mac team member, recalls his interview with Steve Jobs: sitting on a furniture-less floor, staring into each others' eyes--the two men shared a Zen master--followed by Jobs bowing and saying it had gone well.
I did something similar. I wanted to figure out: what were the fewest amount of items I needed to get stuff done? I shrunk it to: a bed, desk, chair and computer. Of course I had peripheral stuff. But now that I think about it, I didn't even need them.
Two anecdotes on Jobs' Furniture:
Larry Ellison, "It struck me that there wasn't furniture good enough for Steve in the world. He'd rather have nothing if he couldn't have perfection."
Ed Riddle, an early Mac team member, recalls his interview with Steve Jobs: sitting on a furniture-less floor, staring into each others' eyes--the two men shared a Zen master--followed by Jobs bowing and saying it had gone well.
I did something similar. I wanted to figure out: what were the fewest amount of items I needed to get stuff done? I shrunk it to: a bed, desk, chair and computer. Of course I had peripheral stuff. But now that I think about it, I didn't even need them.
[1]http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/technology/0911/gallery....
[2]http://news.cnet.com/geek-gestalt/?keyword=Steve+Jobs