If You’re Going To Make Something, Make It Beautiful
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 7 June 2021
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“Fifty years after he helped his father build a fence around their house in Mountain View, Steve Jobs took his biographer Walter Isaacson to see it. Jobs skimmed his hand along one of the fence panels and told Isaacson the lesson his father instilled in him that day all those years ago.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.2 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.1 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.6 | So let's get into it |
| 0:40.3 | If you're going to make something make it beautiful |
| 0:44.5 | 50 years after he helped his father build a fence around their house in Mountain View |
| 0:48.9 | Steve Jobs took his biographer Walter Isaacson to see it |
| 0:52.5 | Jobs skimmed his hand along one of the fence panels and told Isaacson the lesson his father had instilled in him one day all those years ago |
| 1:02.4 | He loved doing things right job said as he directed Isaacson's attention to the back of the fence |
| 1:09.4 | He cared even about the look of the parts you couldn't see a great carpenter jobs learned early |
| 1:16.5 | Wouldn't use even an ugly piece of wood even on the back of a drawer |
| 1:23.4 | Even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it |
| 1:26.9 | He said you'll know it's there |
| 1:28.9 | So you're gonna use a beautiful piece of wood on the back for you to sleep well at night the aesthetic the quality |
| 1:35.3 | It has to be carried all the way through this was the defining characteristic of jobs his career in every product |
| 1:42.7 | He brought into the world craftsmanship if you're going to make something jobs his father taught him make it beautiful |
| 1:50.1 | And that's why even the insides of Apple's computers which |
| 1:54.9 | 99.9% of customers will never see have their own aesthetic |
| 1:59.4 | It's why so many features on Apple computers even the minor ones seem oddly satisfying and intuitive |
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