reality distortion field
description: a term coined by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981 to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs' ability to persuade himself and others to believe almost anything
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The Scandal of Money
by George Gilder · 23 Feb 2016 · 209pp · 53,236 words
entropy. It can be used to prioritize all the trade-offs and accounts of entrepreneurial life. Without time constraints, anything seems possible, particularly in the reality-distortion fields of government power. Money imposes time limits on enterprise and restrictions on government power. Real money brings reality to economic life. By mutilating the rigorous
The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion
by Virginia Postrel · 5 Nov 2013 · 347pp · 86,274 words
persuasion. It depends on maintaining exactly the right relationship between object and audience, imagination and desire. Glamour is fragile because perceptions change. Glamour creates a “reality distortion field”—Silicon Valley’s capsule description of Steve Jobs’s persuasive magic—and because of its artifice, it is always suspect. The real puzzle is not
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson · 23 Oct 2011 · 915pp · 232,883 words
CHAPTER NINE Going Public: A Man of Wealth and Fame CHAPTER TEN The Mac Is Born: You Say You Want a Revolution CHAPTER ELEVEN The Reality Distortion Field: Playing by His Own Set of Rules CHAPTER TWELVE The Design: Real Artists Simplify CHAPTER THIRTEEN Building the Mac: The Journey Is the Reward CHAPTER
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two years of visits, he became increasingly intimate and revealing, though at times I witnessed what his veteran colleagues at Apple used to call his “reality distortion field.” Sometimes it was the inadvertent misfiring of memory cells that happens to us all; at other times he was spinning his own version of reality
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.” According to Kottke, some of Jobs’s personality traits—including a few that lasted throughout his career—were borrowed from Friedland. “Friedland taught Steve the reality distortion field,” said Kottke. “He was charismatic and a bit of a con man and could bend situations to his very strong will. He was mercurial, sure
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. So that made me do something I didn’t think I could do.” It was the brighter side of what would become known as his reality distortion field. “If you trust him, you can do things,” Holmes said. “If he’s decided that something should happen, then he’s just going to make
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and rather passive president, and Jobs found that he now had full rein to do what he wanted with the Mac division. CHAPTER ELEVEN THE REALITY DISTORTION FIELD Playing by His Own Set of Rules The original Mac team in 1984: George Crow, Joanna Hoffman, Burrell Smith, Andy Hertzfeld, Bill Atkinson, and Jerry
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Jobs would not accept any contrary facts. “The best way to describe the situation is a term from Star Trek,” Tribble explained. “Steve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s
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.” At first Hertzfeld thought that Tribble was exaggerating, but after two weeks of working with Jobs, he became a keen observer of the phenomenon. “The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand,” he said
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. There was little that could shield you from the force, Hertzfeld discovered. “Amazingly, the reality distortion field seemed to be effective even if you were acutely aware of it. We would often discuss potential techniques for grounding it, but after a while
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by Odwalla organic orange and carrot juices, someone on the team had T-shirts made. “Reality Distortion Field,” they said on the front, and on the back, “It’s in the juice!” To some people, calling it a reality distortion field was just a clever way to say that Jobs tended to lie. But it was
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days. You realize that it can’t be true, but he somehow makes it true.” When members of the Mac team got ensnared in his reality distortion field, they were almost hypnotized. “He reminded me of Rasputin,” said Debi Coleman. “He laser-beamed in on you and didn’t blink. It didn’t
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matter if he was serving purple Kool-Aid. You drank it.” But like Wozniak, she believed that the reality distortion field was empowering: It enabled Jobs to inspire his team to change the course of computer history with a fraction of the resources of Xerox or
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could get appreciated and rise above their status. But these categories were not immutable, for Jobs could rapidly reverse himself. When briefing Hertzfeld about the reality distortion field, Tribble specifically warned him about Jobs’s tendency to resemble high-voltage alternating current. “Just because he tells you that something is awful or great
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in New York whose regular task was to chronicle the wayward world of rock-and-roll music.” The article quoted Bud Tribble on Jobs’s “reality distortion field” and noted that he “would occasionally burst into tears at meetings.” Perhaps the best quote came from Jef Raskin. Jobs, he declared, “would have made
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audio labs to use the Macintosh name. (In fact the issue was still being negotiated, but the moment called for a bit of the old reality distortion field.) He pulled out a bottle of mineral water and symbolically christened the prototype onstage. Down the hall, Atkinson heard the loud cheer, and with a
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to Jobs. If they knew what they were talking about, he would tolerate the pushback, even admire it. By 1983 those most familiar with his reality distortion field had discovered something further: They could, if necessary, just quietly disregard what he decreed. If they turned out to be right, he would appreciate their
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from Monday, with your names on it.” “Well, we’ve got to finish it,” Steve Capps said. And so they did. Once again, Jobs’s reality distortion field pushed them to do what they had thought impossible. On Friday Randy Wigginton brought in a huge bag of chocolate-covered espresso beans for the
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have to raise the price, I’m sorry I did that to you, and my team is a bunch of idiots.’” Gates saw Jobs’s reality distortion field at play when the Xerox Star was launched. At a joint team dinner one Friday night, Jobs asked Gates how many Stars had been sold
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,” Jobs told me almost thirty years later. Upon hearing this, Gates responded, “If he believes that, he really has entered into one of his own reality distortion fields.” In a legal sense, Gates was right, as courts over the years have subsequently ruled. And on a practical level, he had a strong case
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was going to pour her hot coffee on his lap. The most substantive disagreements Jobs had on the European trip concerned sales forecasts. Using his reality distortion field, Jobs was always pushing his team to come up with higher projections. He kept threatening the European managers that he wouldn’t give them any
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had sold well enough for the first few months, but when people became more aware of its limitations, sales fell. As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.” At the end of 1984, with Lisa sales virtually nonexistent and Macintosh sales falling below
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was also ready to leave. He had worried that it would be hard to quit if Jobs tried to talk him out of it; the reality distortion field was usually too strong for him to resist. So he plotted with Hertzfeld how he could break free of it. “I’ve got it!” he
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told Hertzfeld one day. “I know the perfect way to quit that will nullify the reality distortion field. I’ll just walk into Steve’s office, pull down my pants, and urinate on his desk. What could he say to that? It’s
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I can guarantee you: there is life after Apple.” Perhaps the greatest similarity to his days at Apple was that Jobs brought with him his reality distortion field. It was on display at the company’s first retreat at Pebble Beach in late 1985. There Jobs pronounced that the first NeXT computer would
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applications for the Macintosh, which had turned out to be hugely profitable for Microsoft. But Gates was one person who was resistant to Jobs’s reality distortion field, and as a result he decided not to create software tailored for the NeXT platform. Gates went to California to get periodic demonstrations, but each
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don’t think ‘mercurial’ is so bad after all.” After the applause, he used the quotations book to make a more subtle point, about his reality distortion field. The quote he chose was from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. After Alice laments that no matter how hard she tries she can
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seem to have a clear answer,” Amelio later said. “He seemed to have a set of one-liners.” Amelio felt he was witnessing Jobs’s reality distortion field and was proud to be immune to it. He shooed Jobs unceremoniously out of his office. By the summer of 1996 Amelio realized that he
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him. Jobs’s obstinacy lasted for nine months after his October 2003 diagnosis. Part of it was the product of the dark side of his reality distortion field. “I think Steve has such a strong desire for the world to be a certain way that he wills it to be that way,” Levinson
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make the glass now.” “Don’t be afraid,” Jobs replied. This stunned Weeks, who was good-humored and confident but not used to Jobs’s reality distortion field. He tried to explain that a false sense of confidence would not overcome engineering challenges, but that was a premise that Jobs had repeatedly shown
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it came to designing the iPhone, Ive’s design desires bumped into a fundamental law of physics that could not be changed even by a reality distortion field. Metal is not a great material to put near an antenna. As Michael Faraday showed, electromagnetic waves flow around the surface of metal, not through
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. Texaco Towers: Interviews with Andrea Cunningham, Bruce Horn, Andy Hertzfeld, Mike Scott, Mike Markkula. Hertzfeld, 19–20, 26–27; Wozniak, 241–242. CHAPTER 11: THE REALITY DISTORTION FIELD Interviews with Bill Atkinson, Steve Wozniak, Debi Coleman, Andy Hertzfeld, Bruce Horn, Joanna Hoffman, Al Eisenstat, Ann Bowers, Steve Jobs. Some of these tales have
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–13, 128 ouster of, 113 SJ’s clash with, 110–13 Ratatouille (film), 441 RAZR (cell phone), 465–66 Reagan, Ronald, 192–93, 231, 547 reality distortion field, 38, 52, 117–20, 140, 145, 161, 175–76, 179, 185, 186, 191, 226, 229, 235, 240, 454, 471–72 Wozniak on, 118–19 Real
Why Buddhism is True
by Robert Wright
thing: human beings operating under the influence of human brains whose design presupposed their specialness. That is, human beings operating under the influence of the reality-distortion fields that control us in many and subtle ways, convincing us that we and ours are in the right, that we are by nature good, and
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, and when they do the occasional good thing, it’s not a reflection of the “real them.” And it doesn’t help matters that these reality-distortion fields often magnify, even out-and-out fabricate, the threat posed by them and theirs. So, yes, we need to reject the core evolutionary value of
The Chairman's Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out
by Joe Aston · 27 Oct 2024 · 362pp · 130,141 words
, reflection and response. There had been no substantive engagement by Qantas with the judgment, parts of which were deeply humiliating to the company. Inside the reality-distortion field swathing the airline’s executive floor, nobody seemed to ask, Have we handled ourselves properly here? This was not a group of professionals prepared to
The Wealth Dragon Way: The Why, the When and the How to Become Infinitely Wealthy
by John Lee · 13 Apr 2015 · 202pp · 72,857 words
, I wouldn't be where I am now. What's the Limit to What You Can Achieve? Steve Jobs had what his coworkers called a reality distortion field. He would ask a developer how long it would take to perfect a certain product or piece of software, and if she said 18 months
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
by Edward Chancellor · 15 Aug 2022 · 829pp · 187,394 words
extracted from the finger. Holmes modelled herself on Apple’s Steve Jobs, right down to the black turtleneck sweaters. Like her hero, she created a ‘reality distortion field’. Impossible things could be achieved if only people acted as if they were possible. Hyperbole was the order of the day. Holmes claimed her ‘mini
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
that one might miss out on being the first to reach the next frontier—FOMO on a cosmic level. 191 In sum, Apollo was a reality-distortion field that heavily skewed perception of the program’s risks and rewards. As a consequence of this bubble-like dynamic, society’s risk tolerance increased substantially
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Land explains, “hyperstitions—by their very existence as ideas—function causally to bring about their own reality.” 360 We can therefore think of bubbles as “reality distortion fields” that warp reality to their underlying vision. 361 By applying this model to emerging technologies, we might be able to identify the cutting edge of
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the present and ignites the thymotic intensity and Promethean spirit that is necessary for radical technological innovation and the restoration of dynamism. Bubbles create the reality-distortion field that the transcendent mission requires. Only by embracing a radically different future with singular commitment and sacrifice, often in defiance of the many, can we
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, https://www.orphandriftarchive.com/articles/hyperstition-an-introduction/. 361 The phrase, which originated in a 1966 Star Trek episode in which a humanoid species uses reality-distortion fields to create hyper-realistic illusions, was also used by an early Apple software engineer to describe Steve Jobs’s reality-bending charisma and management style
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. Hertzfeld, “Reality Distortion Field,” Folklore.org, February 1981, https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Reality_Distortion_Field.txt. 362 David Noble, The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention (New
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: Blackwell, 1996. Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. Our Broad Present: Time and Contemporary Culture. New York City: Columbia University Press, 2014. Hertzfeld, Andy. “Reality Distortion Field.” Folklore.org, February 1981. https://www.folklore.org/Reality_Distortion_Field.html. Hölderlin, Friedrich. “Patmos.” In The Oxford Companion to German Literature, edited by Henry Garland and Mary Garland. Oxford: Oxford University
Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
by Andy Hertzfeld · 19 Nov 2011
I Invented Burrell Scrooge McDuck February 1980 It’s the Moustache that Matters September 1980 Good Earth October 1980 Black Wednesday February 1981 Part Two Reality Distortion Field February 1981 Texaco Towers January 1981 More Like A Porsche March 1981 Square Dots April 1981 Early Demos April 1981 Bicycle April 1981 A Message
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hadn’t had time to move out of yet. part two Hell, there are no rules here—we’re trying to accomplish something. Thomas Edison Reality Distortion Field February 1981 Bud defines Steve’s unique talent I officially started on the Mac project on a Thursday afternoon, and Bud Tribble—my new manager
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and won’t accept answers to the contrary. The best way to describe the situation is a term from Star Trek. Steve has a reality distortion field.” “A what?” “A reality distortion field. In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s not around, but it
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you, as if he thought of it.” I thought Bud was surely exaggerating, until I observed Steve in action over the next few weeks. The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, an indomitable will, and an eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand
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another. Sometimes, he would throw you off balance by suddenly adapting your position as his own, without acknowledging that he ever thought differently. Amazingly, the reality distortion field seemed to be effective even if you were acutely aware of it, although the effects would fade after Steve departed. We would often discuss techniques
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me to attend, but Bill insisted, telling me he needed my support, if only to have someone else present to help ground Steve’s infamous reality distortion field (see “Reality Distortion Field” on page 24). Even though I knew it would be awkward, I told him I’d do it. We were both nervous as Bill
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talking about strategies to overcome Steve’s persuasiveness. “I’ve got it!” said Burrell. “I know the perfect way to quit that will nullify the reality distortion field.” Of course we wanted to know how he could do that. “I’ll just walk into Steve’s office, pull down my pants, and urinate
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head start, and we had barely begun. The Mac team always had incredibly optimistic schedules because Steve was never satisfied with more realistic estimates (see “Reality Distortion Field” on page 24), as if he could make things happen faster through sheer force of will. But the desire to ship quickly was counterbalanced by
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Leonardo Da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson · 16 Oct 2017 · 799pp · 187,221 words
. Yet in order to be a true visionary, one has to be willing to overreach and to fail some of the time. Innovation requires a reality distortion field. The things he envisioned for the future often came to pass, even if it took a few centuries. Scuba gear, flying machines, and helicopters now
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