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[Biz] Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field

The Swyx Mixtape

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steve jobs has a reality distortion of fields, which is people's term for how he gets people to do what he wants to do. One thing he does is hire one of the head engineers from zirox who had been working on the goe back at zirok. He tells him, and i kid you not, this is a direct quot qo, everything you've ever done in your life is shit, so why don't you come work for me? And and he did a steve could motivate people by pushing them. His rudeness, i think, really was a liability. But his asset was his passion for product and his willingness to be honest.

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