# Evan Armstrong - Steve Jobs’ Legacy for Builders (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/26936303) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Evan Armstrong]] **Full Title**:: Steve Jobs’ Legacy for Builders **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [every.to](https://every.to/napkin-math/steve-jobs-legacy-for-builders) **Host**:: [[every.to]] **Highlighted**:: [[2023-04-27]] **Created**:: [[2023-04-27]] ## Highlights - On the other hand, the content companies have no appreciation of the creative process in the technical companies. They think that technology is something that you write a check for and buy. That’s it. And they do not understand that **there’s a wide, dynamic range of capability and elegance. They don’t understand the creativity in the process**. So these are like ships passing in the night.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz0gt9pn07fqhga8r075c6th)) ^516487110 - Great content gives you an unfair right to sell technology. The same is true in reverse. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz0gtzhq338bhdq17aw3swm3)) ^516487125 - Investing in experiences that will make you a better person is almost always a good bet. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz0h1q7jzy69w8qye99zat35)) ^516487866 - If AI really does decrease the production costs of most goods—I recognize this is a big if—then suddenly we are looking at markets that compete on taste. The lower the marginal cost of production, the higher the value of taste. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz0h7j2d84g6t692kmjdapab)) ^516492523 <!-- New highlights added April 29, 2023 at 2:14 PM --> - What happened was that, for a time, those got reversed: “We want to make a bunch of money, and so, OK, to do that, we’re going to have to make some good personal computers.” But it didn’t work. It never works. And so things start to fall apart. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz4v11n70v5nm5h0rbxbwrtb)) ^517776419