In this time of mourning over the passing of Steve Jobs it is important to understand what made him such and outstanding individual. And although it is an inconvenient truth to some people, his success was due to using LSD. That is what Apple’s trademark phrase “Think Differently” is referring to.
In his own words, Jobs said that taking LSD was “one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life.” This is what Steve Jobs himself believed was his advantage over Microsoft Windows, saying of Bill Gates, “He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.”
Although it is generally good to teach our children to “say no to drugs” not all drugs are the same. Kids should definitely say no to drugs like cigarettes, excessive alcohol, cocaine, and methamphetamine. But when it come to the psychedelic drugs like marijuana, mescalin, and LSD one has to appreciate that when used properly these drugs can have a profound and permanent positive effect transforming the individual in a way that allows someone to “Think Differently” and be the forefront of computer development like Steve Jobs was.
So when you sit down in front of your Mac computer, your iPod, iPad, iPhone, and listen to you music on iTunes, think of Steve Jobs and wonder where the world would be today if not for the people who “Think Differently” that create all this wonderful technology we enjoy.
Was LSD used in the creation of the new layout?
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What a crock of shit. Where are the millions and millions of Steve Jobs clones from the 60s and 70s?
One guy’s experience does not prove the rule.
Mac Guy ; Dude – if you’ve got it you get it.
You might be right, but think about the implications of your retort. If there are millions of Steve Jobs out there, by definition they cannot all be in the tech field. Thinking differently presupposes one is part of a thinking minority. If there is no common way of thinking, how can there be an exception to it?
So you might know about Steve Jobs because of Apple’s marketing and public relations. What about a teacher thinking differently? You might not ever hear about them because they do not have a marketing or public relations department to promote their achievements. And, their “customers” (students) might not appreciate the teachers achievements in the same way they appreciate their iPod. But that teacher’s influence might be much farther reaching in impact to the world than the iPod.
So your question just might represent your own ignorance of the other millions* of Steve Jobs out there in other fields.
*No one actually knows how many people took LSD in the 60′s and 70′s.
Riiiight. And what about those that started killing sprees because they had an acid trip?
Specious argument
In my article I point out that it was Steve Jobs himself, not just my opinion, that LSD was the important key to his success. If you don’t believe it then you aren’t believing Jobs opinion about his own life.
Is there a link I missed, or are we really calling four paragraphs an article now?
I heard that’s what fucked up his pancreas & liver
HIV
From personal experience, LSD can change a person, for better or worse depending on the experience.
The trademark phrase was actually Think Different and not Think Differently.
It’d be nice to think he went out on one final glorious trip
Was LSD used in the creation of the new layout?
Yeah, the brown acid. Man.
This is just silly.
Last year I bartered for a small pile of pot…it’s amazing where your brain goes, and how fast it goes, on THC. I ended up carrying around paper and a pen to write down all the great stuff that went through my head. Amazing, really it was.
Maybe so, but he must have been shit-faced drunk when he dreamed up iTunes.
LSD is alien technology. Watch Transformers two. One sliver of that cube and that kid was recalling all memories from human dna evolution. LSD was first synthesized when the chemist was trying to synthesize the active ingredients in psilocybin mushrooms which according to dennis McKenna have traveled for eons across the galaxy to land on earth.
I think you should check again, I believe he was synthesizing the active chemical in ergot fungus.
I used LSD several times, and can verify it is something you never forget. I don’t think it makes you more creative in the long term, however. It showed me that visions of weird patterns of colorful design playing themselves endlessly on ordinary, unextraordinary surfaces are reintrepretations of photons striking the retina, and are re-organized by your scrambled brain.
Consider Feyneman’s observation: Light is traveling all about in all directions, and your retina only picks up a tiny bit of it. Then, your brain manages to make sense of it and keep the images orderly and intrepretable even when the objects are moving, and your retina is shifting, causing the images of the object to constantly impact different rods and cones, and travel to your visual cortex. The photons from that horse’s ass are never impacting the same spots, and your visual cortex has to re evaluate the object and make sense of it constantly.
This is all so much more intense and remarkable than any iPod’s processor.
The brain in it’s natural state is more amazing than the brain in an unordered state.
But some people are fooled, and think there is some kind of instant genius awarded to those who ingest chemicals that disturb the cortex.
All the personalities in the “Think Different” campaign were DEAD and not thinking at all anymore ! But I can’t agree that psycho-active drugs are necessary to “Think Different” – it has been called “thinking outside the box” and just means start with a clean sheet and ask yourself how you would do something if every aspect was up to you, without reference to what had gone on before … Any Jobs developed into very marketable products ideas that other had, for example the Xerox Star with its GUI, laser printing, the MP3 Player, etc… His “genius” was to see that he had to offer a complete system, pretty much as Edison had to set up electric power companies to sell lightbulbs !!! Another aspect of Jobs perception of markets was to “Keep it simple, stupid!” or KISS – the principle that you would reach the broadest market with easy to use device … The iPad being the realization of the DynaBook of Alan Kay way back in 1972, when the Technology just wasn’t there …
You hit it just right.
This is Alan Kay’s Dynabook, but without the limitations of a keyboard and with GPS, attitude control, accelerometers WIFI and 3G.
If only it came with Squeak! built in…
Speaking of bad acid trips, the Westboro Baptist Church is planning to protest Steve Job’s funeral if they can.
I look forward to watching all the Youtube videos of outraged Apple Fanboys literally tearing those bungholes apart into bloody chunks for their “Blasphemy” against Steve Jobs.
http://pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394283,00.asp
If those fucktards protest, I suggest they’ll see a flash mob like the the world has never seen before.
And, the blog still can’t deal with www. lol
If they are stupid to try to usurp this, they will be very disappointed.
I don’t think that the Apple fanboys will tear them limb from limb.
Instead They will engage in conversation with them about a million topics that are way beyond the capacity of any member of the Westboro Baptist church until the Westboro church members realize that the only way to make a dent in the Cult Of Mac is with a tire iron.
The arcana about how many angel can dance on the head of a pin will seem gross and obtuse when compared with the level of Apple design minutia which can be recited by the Apple faithful.
The Westboro Baptist church might as well go to an animé convention or a trekkie convention.
Westboro meet Otaku and Trekkies.
May the Flying Spaghetti Monster have mercy on your wretched souls.
(expect violence…)
In the article
the cops say BTDT, they give WBC protection and a place to protest.
The sad part is that some jerkoff journos will cover their protest, which is probably being held many blocks away on the remains of an old torn-down gas station.
If by topics they don’t understand you mean talking endlessly about how “wonderful” mac products are and getting all the facts about tech wrong just so they can still believe Steve’s reality distortion field then yes, they’ll bore them to death.
While I agree that LSD is an experience that one will never forget, it it not necessarily good. As a child in the 1960s, when my mother was in charge of the first aid booth at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, I witnessed a few outrageously bad trips.
As a college freshman in 1980, I did it twice. Glad to have had the experience, but nothing I would want to do regularly, or since.
But, I agree with Jobs that Bill Gates could use a dose or two. Some Ex-Lax might help too!
I figure he started to hallucinate Apple gadgets with
rounded corners.
People try to dignify their drug habits, it makes them easier to live with.
If the DEA caught wind of this. They would have locked Steve Jobs up as a trouble maker.
oops– I’ll try this:
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