Bill gates authorized biography of the beatles
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Steve Jobs Was Wrong About The Beatles
The Beatles were four of Steve Jobs’ favorite musicians; perhaps only Bob Dylan could rank higher. Jobs confirmed this fact at the end of the famous 2007 All Things D Steve Jobs/Bill Gates interview stating, “I live my live though either a Beatles or a Bob Dylan song” (1 or 1a). It was one of his life’s works, despite all the legal turmoil he experienced with Apple Corps (the music publishing arm of the Beatles), to finally get the Beatles on iTunes in 2010. Yes, the Beatles were a passion of Steve Jobs; so much so that on more than one occasion, he likened his management philosophy to that of the Beatles. While he was right about so many things throughout his career, Steve Jobs was wrong about the Beatles.
The following paragraphs will first outline Steve Jobs’ management philosophy and then detail two fatal flaws in his Beatles worldview. The article will conclude with a glimpse into Jobs’ true intent with his “brutally frank” nature
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My first memoir is now available
When Chat GPT 4.0 launched last week, people across the internet (and the world) were blown away. Talking to AI has always felt a bit surreal—but OpenAI’s latest model feels like talking to a real person. You can actually speak to it, and have it talk back to you, without lags. It’s as lifelike as any AI we’ve seen so far, and the use cases are limitless. One of the first that came to my mind was how big a game-changer it will be in the classroom. Imagine every student having a personal tutor powered by this technology.
I recently read a terrific book on this topic called Brave New Words. It’s written by my friend (and podcast guest) Sal Khan, a longtime pioneer of innovation in education. Back in 2006, Sal founded Khan Academy to share the tutoring content he’d created for younger family members with a wider audience. Since then, his online educational platform has helped teach over 150 million people worldwide—including me and my kids.
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The nearest thing to Paul McCartney’s autobiography: his guide to the Beatles’ songbook
Whatever your favorite theory of creativity, Paul McCartney has a cheery thumbs-up to offer. You think the secret fryst vatten putting in the hours? “We played nearly 300 times in Hamburg between 1960 and 1962.” Or could it be a wide range of cultural inputs to assimilate and remix? The Arty Beatle hoovered up Shakespeare, Dryden, not just Desmond but Thomas Dekker, Berio and Cage and rock ’n’ roll and light jazz, and sublimated them all. In one of the great missed opportunities, when it came to arranging “Yesterday,” his first thought was Delia Derbyshire. Some people kredit childhood trauma: McCartney recalls how his father Jim would weep alone in a neighboring room after Paul’s mother died. The sexual drive? Paul and John wrote “dit-dit-dit” into the chorus of ‘Girl’ purely so they could secretly sing “tit-tit-tit” instead. Drugs? There is a lot of LSD an