Archive for the 'Apple' Category


My Mother Wants An iPhone

I know, I know, I’m overloading you. You’ve had enough crap from this self-centered Lefsetz, who does he think he is anyway? But I just want to tell you this one story. My mother has mellowed. That’s one great thing about age, you stop trying to change the future, you go along for the ride. […]

Siri

If Apple can’t make it overnight, why do you think you can? Sure, millions of iPhone 4S’s have been sold. And so many are under contract and unable to buy one right now. But isn’t it interesting that sales of Droids and other smartphones have not completely tanked? But they’re about to. Siri is a […]

Nobody Likes To Argue

That’s what Steve Jobs did best. Wrestle with concepts, do his best to tease out excellence. It’s what’s absent from our me-too society. There’s a culture of business books that teach you how to get along. As if life is a game with set rules and you only have to learn them to win. But […]

For A Dancer

I don’t know what happens when people dieCan’t seem to grasp it as hard as I tryLike a song I can hear playing right in my earThat I can’t singI can’t help listening If Steve Jobs were alive, he’d be going to work. Because the mission was just that important. There were no excuses, nothing […]