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"One of the central problems with narrative nonfiction is that the best narratives aren’t messy and complicated, while nonfiction nearly always is. Daisey stepped way too far over the line when he started outright lying to his audience and to the producers of This American Life. But all of us in the narrative-nonfiction business (I’ve written such stuff myself) are faced at some point with a choice between telling the story and telling the whole truth, or the whole truth as best we understand it. Someone like Michael Lewis will concentrate with a laser focus on the story: what he writes is the truth, but it isn’t the whole truth. And when you have a storyteller like Mike Daisey who considers himself a monologist rather than a journalist, even outright lies can find their way in to the story very easily."

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"Kare's work gave the Mac a visual lexicon that was universally inviting and intuitive. Instead of thinking of each image as a tiny illustration of a real object, she aimed to design icons that were as instantly comprehensible as traffic signs."

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"We can hardly overestimate Jobs's impact on our environment. The decentralized nature of modern work would be impossible without the personal computer. As we navigate the landscape with smartphones, listening to a soundtrack of our choosing while staying in constant touch with our fellows, we have him to thank. To be sure, most of these developments would have come about anyway. Jobs's life was a Braudelian crest of foam upon a technological sea. Moreover without employees like Jonathan Ive, Andy Hertzfeld, or Susan Kare, little of it would have been impossible. But without Steve Jobs, it would have been far less elegant, less compelling, and less fun. "

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My affection for the shiny objects Apple sells does, however, bring me to the part about Steve Jobs where we might want to interrupt the celebration of his life once again.  Probably more than any other innovator, Jobs has made it possible to confuse one’s life with one’s lifestyle; he has made an Apple lifestyle appear universal when it can, in fact, be possessed by only a select group of people; and he has created the illusion that prosperity and grace (in the form of beautiful, expensive objects) can define a moment in history that is characterized by inequality and violence.

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Second: boy, do Americans love them some CEO, especially an arrogant one. For a bunch of freedom-loving rebels there is certainly a strong streak of servility in the national character.

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" Steve Jobs was not charismatic. He spoke from the heart compelling others to follow him.
Steve Jobs was not a gifted orator. He spoke plainly.
Steve Jobs was not a magician. He practiced, a lot.

He had taste.
He was curious.
He was patient.
He was foolish.
He was hungry.

These things many others can do. Maybe you can."

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The results are surprising. An American made iPod Classic costs just 23% more than a Chinese made iPod Classic: $58 more, to be precise. The same relationship holds across the iPod family (price differentials in the 20-30% range) The iPod is a durable good, so that's a difference — but smaller than one might expect.

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