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Why Steve Jobs words are magical?

2 points by redaantar a day ago · 10 comments · 1 min read


I'm genuinely curious why Steve’s way of talking, organising, and chaining ideas is amazing. From your point of view, what's the secret sauce ?

pseudocomposer a day ago

It’s knowing when to do less. Both in design and speaking style, only adding complexity as an option of last resort

  • redaantarOP a day ago

    so you think KISS (keep it simple stupid) is the key in this case ?

throwawayffffas a day ago

It was not, it's called salesmanship. It's all hype.

  • redaantarOP a day ago

    Ofc it's salesmanship, but actually not anyone is able to chain ideas and talk the same way

functionmouse a day ago

Impeccable taste. Which is, unfortunately, something that can't be put on a resume.

  • redaantarOP a day ago

    Totally agree, but the question "Impeccable taste" is a skill or a gift.

MisterTea a day ago

Can you post an example of what you are talking about?

roryirvine a day ago

Notably, his later speeches used lots of NLP-esque persuasion techniques.

Prominent examples include the almost hypnotic stress patterns, the frequent reduplication, and deliberate garbling of sentences to ensure the key point always comes right at the end.

Donald Trump (ab)uses some very similar methods - read a Trump speech from when he was in his prime and compare it with a Jobs speech, and it can be surprisingly hard to tell the two apart.

  • redaantarOP a day ago

    Interesting point of view. Do you have any resources for such things, books, videos, etc., explaining those persuasion techniques you mentioned?

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