{"id":17243,"date":"2011-11-01T16:54:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T23:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2011-11-01T16:54:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T23:54:30","slug":"clarity-vs-obfuscation-steve-jobs-occupy-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/clarity-vs-obfuscation-steve-jobs-occupy-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarity vs. Obfuscation: Steve Jobs &amp; Occupy Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have <em>no<\/em> intention of making this blog a political one, but I did find interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/frank-rich\/class-war-2011-10\/index2.html\">Frank Rich&#8217;s insight<\/a> into the phenomenon of Occupy Wall Street protesters mourning Steve Jobs, a multi-billionaire:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yet those demonstrators who celebrated Jobs were not necessarily hypocrites\u2026\u00a0Jobs\u2019s genius\u2026 was his ability \u201cto strip away the excess layers of business, design, and innovation until only the simple, elegant reality remained.\u201d The supposed genius of modern Wall Street is the exact reverse, piling on excess layers of business and innovation on ever thinner and more exotic creations until simple reality is distorted and obscured.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just food for thought. (Oh, and if you haven&#8217;t read Michael Lewis&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Big_Short\">The Big Short<\/a>,<\/em> you&#8217;re missing out. I&#8217;m halfway through his follow-up, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Boomerang-Travels-New-Third-World\/dp\/0393081818\">Boomerang<\/a><\/em>, and it&#8217;s similarly compelling.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no intention of making this blog a political one, but I did find interesting Frank Rich&#8217;s insight into the phenomenon of Occupy Wall Street protesters mourning Steve Jobs, a multi-billionaire: Yet those demonstrators who celebrated Jobs were not necessarily hypocrites\u2026\u00a0Jobs\u2019s genius\u2026 was his ability \u201cto strip away the excess layers of business, design, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}