Steve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation on 1980 (Insanely Great)

The thing that amazes me about Jobs is how he could present in such a way that it seemed so off-the-cuff and at the same time so polished. Anyone who has had to do presentations like these can learn a lot from watching him at work. In the NeXT video, for example, he's very good at tying everything together into a cohesive whole, and speaking to his audience in terms they'll understand. He uses practically no filler words ("uh", "um", "basically", etc.). Here's another presentation he did in 1980 that shows he had these skills almost from the very beginning: link to this video

…he can easily see the title in the tab; the rest of the URI is probably meaningless or not worth understanding for the 99%. 99% of the time, it is probably even a waste for the other 1%; it's not that URIs are going away. I'm not even sure what you mean by a "Web 3.0" revolution. The following is the future? * Youtube link off my Youtube homepage: link to this video * Twitter status link: link -- though I'd wager a majority of users simply hit retweet and never see the resource URI * Facebook photo off my wall: link…

…rd of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn’t look so good. But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts. link link to this video > ... There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself. link…

I just ran across this talk where Jobs basically makes that claim: link to this video He says it was also because he liked apples, and it was ahead of Atari in the phone book.

This is great that you can do that. An experimental environment must be of the same size. Ideally, absolutely the same physically, to keep the same physical layout as on prod – bloat, etc – though, sometimes it's not allowed. Another problem here is that for each experiment, you might need a new environment. Plus, in larger teams, many people might want to do this work at the same time – so you end up combining efforts, synchronizing them, sharing environments. It slows you down. Or increases your cloud spending a lot. This is a kind of problem Steve Jobs described in his famous 1980 speech 1 about Apple: if we give each person their own computer, something special happens compared to the…

It reminds me of this Steve Jobs Clip: link to this video He said, so many years ago, that there will become a time where computing power is so prevalent that we will stop using the person to make the computers job easier and start using the computer to make the humans job of interfacing with it easier. But in this context, it would mean the other side of increase productivity is decreased time to do the same work. These are the same thing.