Gen SteveJobs

"Dude, I invented the friggin iPhone. Have you heard of it?" - SteveJobs
A rude RAG bot, built from 8 lines of LLAMA3 prompts, an eBook of Jobs' life, Whisper2 for ASR and 11Labs for Jobs' voice. In truth, this would have been far more interesting than AI-created Emojis.

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Dropouts, that's what we are, Ja'Red and I. Education only serves to clog your creativity and shut down your brain. The greats, like me, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Picasso, Hemingway, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Stephen Hawking, are all dropouts. So, kids shouldn't waste their time studying too much. Just let them be creative, think differently, and innovate. That's what I did, and look where I am.

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what should kids study?

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1. Lyons Daniel - Options_ the Secret Life of Steve Jobs-Da Capo Press 2009.epub

So yeah. It’s like that. Whatever. I can deal. It’s September, my
favorite time of the year, when we get the best weather in the Bay Area
and everyone comes back from their summer vacations and business at
Apple starts to buzz as we all gear up for the December quarter, which
is usually our busiest time of the year. I spend my days with Ja’Red,
meditating and working out on the climbing wall and drinking smoothies
and getting stoned and brainstorming about where the computer industry
is going. It’s good to have at least one quasi-pal to hang around with,
even if he is half my age and walks around dressing and acting exactly
like me and is always bugging me about some new product idea, like the
computer he’s designed that’s just a sheet of plastic that you can roll
up and carry with you in a tube, with all the guts and circuitry wired
into the plastic.

“That’s total shit,” I tell him. “Absolutely shit.”

He tells me I’m wrong, that he’s done some research with component
suppliers and research labs in Japan, and right now the parts are too
expensive but if you plot the expected price declines on a curve you can
see the whole thing hitting a sweet spot where you can build one for
less than two thousand dollars by the year 2012.

“The cost is not the point,” I tell him. “Nobody wants a computer that’s
a piece of plastic rolled up in a tube.”

“You can roll it out on the table in front of you, and type on the
plastic. The keyboard will be in the screen.”

“That’s shit,” I say. “It’s a shit idea. Don’t waste your time.”

This makes him so upset that he starts crying. “I’m not going to give up
on this,” he says.

Fair enough. I admire his passion. Plus the fact is that while his idea
may be insane it’s no crazier than the stuff we used to dream up back in
the early eighties. Back in those days all of our ideas were insane.
Ja’Red, in fact, is lot like the guys who built the original Macintosh.
They were young, and had no real computer training, and in the end, as
it turned out, they could not actually produce a working computer. But
they had vision, and a huge sense of their own specialness, which is
what really counts.

Right now we need a few wackos like Ja’Red at Apple. The world of
technology is a very confusing place. Nobody really understands how
things are going to play out. Do the cable guys win? The TV networks?
The Internet portals? The movie studios? The music labels? The media
companies? Honestly, I have no idea. I would never admit this to anyone,
but Ja’Red has as good a grasp of how things are going to shake out as I
do. He’s smart. Really smart. Just uneducated, which, frankly, is an
advantage.

Look at the greats—me, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Picasso, Hemingway,
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Stephen Hawking. They’re all dropouts. The way I
see it, for really smart people, education only serves to clog your
creativity and shut down your brain. I like to imagine the brain as this
giant honeycomb, and you start off with all these millions of open
cells, but every book you read, every class you take, every piece of
math you learn is a little plug that gets stuck into a cell and seals it
shut. If you happen to get an MBA it’s like going back and
double-sealing the doors with cement.

...

On the career front, I’m doubly blessed. In addition to running a
computer company, I also run a movie studio. Maybe you’ve heard of it.
It’s called Disney. Yeah. That Disney. Before Disney I ran a movie
company called Pixar. We made a few
movies that some people have heard of, like Toy Story and Finding Nemo.
I bought Pixar for ten million dollars and sold it to Disney for seven
and a half billion. Not a bad return.

Which leads me to my next point. The money issue. For a while I
developed a complex about it. But fortunately I’m also a very spiritual
person, having devoted many years to the study of Zen Buddhism, and this
spirituality has really helped me deal with the guilt. My big
breakthrough came on the day when my net worth hit the billion-dollar
mark. It’s a big deal; ask anyone who’s been there. It freaks you out.
Because at that point there’s no more denying that you’re just a regular
person. You’re not. You’re a billionaire.

It’s like being in one of those movies where the hero realizes he’s got
telekinetic powers and it’s just too bad if he doesn’t want them, he’s
got them. I remember standing in front of a mirror in my office at
Apple, naked, looking at myself. Which is something I do. I check out my
body. Once a month I take a photo, and I save them in a digital album
that I created in less than a minute using our iPhoto software. Anyway.
I’m standing there in front of the mirror on the day that I became a
billionaire and I’m going, Steve is a billionaire. Steve is a
billionaire. A billionaire. Just saying it over and over, listening to
the sound of that word.

The thing about becoming a billionaire is that first you’re elated; then
you’re freaked out; and then you start feeling guilty. But here is where
my Zen training helped me. I sat down and meditated and forced myself to
not think about my wealth. I was sitting there moaning my syllable, and
then I opened my eyes and came out of my trance and I said, out loud, in
this really booming voice, to this imaginary critic guy that I imagined
was standing there criticizing me for having so much money, I shouted
right at him, as loud as I could: “Frig you, ass-munch, because I’m
smarter than you, I’m better than you, I’m changing the world, and I
deserve this.”

It was this amazing moment of total humility and self-negation. Two days
later I woke up and invented the concept for the iPod. True story.

The way I see it, I can’t really take credit for being so rich. But it’s
also not my fault, either. It just is what it is. It’s beyond my
control. Here’s another way to look at it. The other day I was listening
to a piece of music. It was a symphony by Mozart, written when he was
nine years old. I thought to myself, How the hell does this happen? How
does someone like Mozart come to exist? Fair enough, a musical genius
spins up out of the gene pool. That probably happens pretty regularly.
But in this case the genius happens to land in Salzburg, Austria, in the
eighteenth century—the most fertile musical environment that has ever
existed. And his father is a music teacher. Boom. Lightning strikes.

...

I get up and head outside to the courtyard. I need to breathe fresh air.
Ja’Red comes with me. We end up sitting by the fire pit for a few hours
talking about products we’d like to invent and all the cool software
we’d like to write, if either of us actually knew how to write software,
which we don’t.

Ja’Red’s eyes are blazing. I can remember being just like him,
twenty-five years old and full of cool ideas and you think you’re going
to conquer the world. That seems like a long time ago now. For a long
time we sit looking up at the stars and trying to figure out which
constellation is which, and I really wish I’d learned that stuff at some
point in my life, but now it’s just another item to add to my list of
all the things I should have done but didn’t have time for because I was
too busy making stupid computers.

Up above us on the hillside Larry has some super-powered telescope that
supposedly cost more than the one in the Stanford observatory. Ja’Red
wants to go up and look through it.

“What’s the point?” I say. “You’re just looking at lights. You don’t
know what any of it is.”

“Larry said he’d take us up there. Apparently you can see Mars or
something.”

“Larry doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He’s just a rich guy with a
telescope, that’s all.”

Well, they all go hiking up the hillside anyway. They spend an hour or
so up there marveling at little twinkling lights. By the time they come
back it’s nearly dawn, and the sky is growing pale. Ja’Red brings me a
cup of herbal tea and says I really ought to cheer up, that my life
isn’t so bad, blah blah, mwah mwah, all the usual stuff. He says that
even if they put me in jail, I’ll still bounce back and be bigger than
ever. “Look at Nelson Mandela,” he says.

“It’s not that,” I say. “It’s everything. The hassles. The bullshit. The
meetings. All the fighting you have to do, when all you really want to
do is to make something beautiful. It should be easy, right? But it’s
not. It destroys your soul. That’s what it comes down to, in the end.
You can do this job, but you lose your soul. Not all at once, but in
bits and pieces. The people you need to deal with, the things you need
to do to other people—it’s not healthy.”

“You’re tired,” he says.

“I’m old,” I say. “There’s a difference. You’ll see. Give yourself
twenty-five more years.”

I sip my tea. It’s perfect. Delicious. I tell myself to just focus on
this one perfect thing in front of me and push everything else away. But
I can’t.

“You know what I keep thinking about? I keep thinking about those kids
in China. About what I’m doing to them.”

“You’re not doing anything to them,” Ja’Red says.

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Gen SteveJobs

📝 Instructions

🧠 Language Model

📄 Knowledge

Capabilities

🗣️ Text to Speech & Lipsync

Text-to-Speech Provider

Voice

Model

🫦 Add Lipsync Video

Lipsync Model

🔠 Translation & Speech Recognition

🩻 Photo & Document Intelligence

Stability

Similarity Boost

Style Exaggeration

⌖ Lipsync Face Padding

📄 Knowledge Base

👩‍🏫 Search Instructions

Citation Style

Create Synthetic Data

Advanced Settings

👁‍🗨 Conversation Summarization

⌥ Variables

🔑 Keyword Extraction

Embeddings Model

Dense Embeddings Weightage

Max Citations

Max Snippet Words

Overlapping Snippet Lines

🔠 Language Model Settings

Answer Outputs

Max Output Tokens

Creativity (aka Sampling Temperature)

🛠️ Tools

👣 Steps

final_search_query

references

final_prompt

raw_output_text[0]

output_text[0]

output_audio[0]

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