Thursday, November 14, 2013
Passion Project Updates & Reflections
So far, I have completed about twenty percent of my passion project along with Sai. I have done a lot of research on optical illusions and have tried many of them on my own. We plan on showing at least ten or so illusions. I have picked a good five illusions that we would like to use for our project. What I need to do is start writing down research for our PowerPoint presentation. Me and Sai need to divy up the work accordingly as well as the certain parts which we would like to do together. The obstacles I have face in the past eight weeks is procrastination. I should use the passion project days better than I had used them for the past eight weeks. In the future I plan on working at home and using the passion project days more efficiently.
So far, I have completed about twenty percent of my passion project along with Sai. I have done a lot of research on optical illusions and have tried many of them on my own. We plan on showing at least ten or so illusions. I have picked a good five illusions that we would like to use for our project. What I need to do is start writing down research for our PowerPoint presentation. Me and Sai need to divy up the work accordingly as well as the certain parts which we would like to do together. The obstacles I have face in the past eight weeks is procrastination. I should use the passion project days better than I had used them for the past eight weeks. In the future I plan on working at home and using the passion project days more efficiently.
Monday, October 28, 2013
Steve Jobs: A True Outlier
When you hear of a programmer what do you think? Most people imagine a man hunched over a desk with glasses typing mindless lines of uniform code. Many believe that writing a program requires more analytic thinking than creative thinking. However, perhaps the biggest outlier in history was one to shatter the boundaries of what programming was thought to be. Steve Jobs revolutionized the computer technical industry. He made it practical to have home computers at a time when this was difficult to even fathom. Who knows? Without him I might not be typing these words down write now on a computer and certainly not on the Macbook Pro i'm using. This visionary, legend, and quite frankly, a BOSS is truly one of the most significant outliers in history.
Born on February 24, 1955 to an unwed grad student named Joanne Simpson and to a Native Syrian named Abdulfattah John Jandali. In an america where babies born out of marriage were taboo, Jobs was put up for adoption. He was eventually adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, a middle class couple settled in the Bay Area. Steve was a very turbulent child up until the 4th grade where his teacher would "bribe me into learning with five dollar bills and candy". He became so hooked to school, he would skip 5th grade and go straight to middle school. He was bullied at a young age encouraging them to move to Los Altos so Jobs could attend Cupertino Junior High. During this time was the birth of the silicon valley which was important to Jobs because as Malcolm Gladwell said, sometimes an outlier has to be born at a certain time to end up being successful. The silicon valley was upcoming when Steve founded Apple, giving him an edge on the industry. We're getting ahead of ourselves though, let's dive back into the story. As Steve was growing up in Los Altos, he became increasingly curious with the world of electronics, tinkering and discovering in his parent's garage. When steve was in high school, he enrolled in the popular electronics class. Steve got spare parts from HP and even managed to work for a small amount of time in their factories. His practical intelligence was shown in situation, which is part of the Triarchic Theory of intelligence from Outliers. He would meet Bill Hernandez, also his neighbor in his electronics class. Bill eventually introduced Stve to Steve Wozniack, or Woz for short. Woz would later prove to be a vital part of the creation of Apple as well as one of Steve's closest friends. Woz, Steve, and Bill would build a computer board in their free time which they called "the cream soda computer board".
Steve would attend Reed college, a private liberal arts school up in Oregon. However he left Reed after only a few months of attending. After this, Steve went through a period of experimenting with Eastern mysticism and LSD trips. After a small dark period, Steve travelled to India to rediscover himself as well as reevaluate his life. When Steve came back, him and Woz began building their own line of computer boards which they sold to local electronic store. Realizing the opportunity in this upcoming field, he would found Apple Computers. In the early days, the company was a force to be reckoned with. However the board of directors would eventually fire Steve as they believed his presence was harmful for the company. However he proved them wrong, opening up another tech company named Next which would be bought back by Apple and led to him being reinstated as CEO. He would come back with a vengence growing apple into the powerhouse it is today. However, he died due to pancreatic cancer on October 5, 2011.
The main reason i believe that Steve jobs is an outlier is because he seized the opportunities he was given and was intelligent in all of definitions according to the Triarchic Theory of intelligence. He was an opportunist and achieved success not just because of his IQ and school smarts. He saw the opportunity of an rapidly growing field and risked his whole life by creating Apple Computers. Even as a young boy, he seized the opportunity to work at an HP factory and gain valuable experience at Atari Video Games. The man basically knows what he wants and when and where to take it. We see the idea of opportunity in Outliers. Chris Langan is a genius, but was not given or didn't take the right opportunities to be successful. Steve Jobs He also is an extremely intelligent person. But he wasn't just analytically intelligent, as he could write lines of code to program. He was also creatively intelligent as he was a visionary and could see what he wanted for himself and his company before it even happened. His ability to think outside the box also shows is adept creativity. He is also an amazing entrepreneur, displaying his practical intelligence. A very good example of this was his ability to get sought out people to help run his company. When he was owner of Apple he was able to sign John Sculley, the president of PepsiCo. His practical intelligence and witty humor is evident when he asked Sculley whether "you want to be selling sugar water for the rest of your life, or if you want to do something truly great". For thes reasons, Steve Jobs is the most famous outlier in history who put the world in our palms with his inventions and ideas. His legacy will live on in every iPhone and iPad ever made and ever will be made.
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Born on February 24, 1955 to an unwed grad student named Joanne Simpson and to a Native Syrian named Abdulfattah John Jandali. In an america where babies born out of marriage were taboo, Jobs was put up for adoption. He was eventually adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, a middle class couple settled in the Bay Area. Steve was a very turbulent child up until the 4th grade where his teacher would "bribe me into learning with five dollar bills and candy". He became so hooked to school, he would skip 5th grade and go straight to middle school. He was bullied at a young age encouraging them to move to Los Altos so Jobs could attend Cupertino Junior High. During this time was the birth of the silicon valley which was important to Jobs because as Malcolm Gladwell said, sometimes an outlier has to be born at a certain time to end up being successful. The silicon valley was upcoming when Steve founded Apple, giving him an edge on the industry. We're getting ahead of ourselves though, let's dive back into the story. As Steve was growing up in Los Altos, he became increasingly curious with the world of electronics, tinkering and discovering in his parent's garage. When steve was in high school, he enrolled in the popular electronics class. Steve got spare parts from HP and even managed to work for a small amount of time in their factories. His practical intelligence was shown in situation, which is part of the Triarchic Theory of intelligence from Outliers. He would meet Bill Hernandez, also his neighbor in his electronics class. Bill eventually introduced Stve to Steve Wozniack, or Woz for short. Woz would later prove to be a vital part of the creation of Apple as well as one of Steve's closest friends. Woz, Steve, and Bill would build a computer board in their free time which they called "the cream soda computer board".
Steve would attend Reed college, a private liberal arts school up in Oregon. However he left Reed after only a few months of attending. After this, Steve went through a period of experimenting with Eastern mysticism and LSD trips. After a small dark period, Steve travelled to India to rediscover himself as well as reevaluate his life. When Steve came back, him and Woz began building their own line of computer boards which they sold to local electronic store. Realizing the opportunity in this upcoming field, he would found Apple Computers. In the early days, the company was a force to be reckoned with. However the board of directors would eventually fire Steve as they believed his presence was harmful for the company. However he proved them wrong, opening up another tech company named Next which would be bought back by Apple and led to him being reinstated as CEO. He would come back with a vengence growing apple into the powerhouse it is today. However, he died due to pancreatic cancer on October 5, 2011.
The main reason i believe that Steve jobs is an outlier is because he seized the opportunities he was given and was intelligent in all of definitions according to the Triarchic Theory of intelligence. He was an opportunist and achieved success not just because of his IQ and school smarts. He saw the opportunity of an rapidly growing field and risked his whole life by creating Apple Computers. Even as a young boy, he seized the opportunity to work at an HP factory and gain valuable experience at Atari Video Games. The man basically knows what he wants and when and where to take it. We see the idea of opportunity in Outliers. Chris Langan is a genius, but was not given or didn't take the right opportunities to be successful. Steve Jobs He also is an extremely intelligent person. But he wasn't just analytically intelligent, as he could write lines of code to program. He was also creatively intelligent as he was a visionary and could see what he wanted for himself and his company before it even happened. His ability to think outside the box also shows is adept creativity. He is also an amazing entrepreneur, displaying his practical intelligence. A very good example of this was his ability to get sought out people to help run his company. When he was owner of Apple he was able to sign John Sculley, the president of PepsiCo. His practical intelligence and witty humor is evident when he asked Sculley whether "you want to be selling sugar water for the rest of your life, or if you want to do something truly great". For thes reasons, Steve Jobs is the most famous outlier in history who put the world in our palms with his inventions and ideas. His legacy will live on in every iPhone and iPad ever made and ever will be made.
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