Amaya Toman It's no secret that Steve Jobs was a big stickler and perfectionist. Even his colleagues at Pixar know about it, having experienced Jobs's obsession with details firsthand. It was also mentioned by Patty Bonfilio, chief operating officer at Pixar, who recalled the era of designing the company's headquarters.
In an interview, she stated that there was a dispute between Jobs and the first architect due to the fact that the architect allegedly refused to comply with the designs that Jobs came up with. Jobs eventually hired the architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson to design the Steve Jobs Building on Pixar's campus. The design process began in 1996, with the first employees moving into the building in 2000.
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Jobs took the work on the building very seriously. "He not only researched the history of the area, but was also inspired by other architectural works," recalls Patty Bonfilio, adding that his design was based on the appearance of the industrial buildings in the area, most of which were built in the 1920s.
When it came to the construction process, Steve wanted to have everything under complete control - for example, he forbade the construction workers to use pneumatic tools. Instead, workers had to tighten thousands of bolts in the building by hand using a wrench. Jobs also insisted that he personally select each of the wooden panels that would be visible from the outside.
Patty Bonfilio's story is certainly familiar to anyone who ever had the privilege of working with Jobs. The co-founder of Apple was able to pay really excessive attention to details. For example, there is a well-known story about how Jobs insisted that computers be attractive from all sides.
One of the last projects in which Jobs was at least partially actively involved was Apple Park. One of the architects involved in the design of Apple's campus recalled how Jobs was literally obsessed with choosing the right wood for the project: “He knew exactly what wood he wanted. Not just in the 'I like oak' or 'I like maple' kind of way. He knew it had to be quartered – ideally in January – to keep the sap and sugar content as low as possible,” he said.
It would be naive to think that everyone who worked with Jobs was boundlessly excited and primarily motivated by his perfectionism. A few years after his death, however, these stories take on a completely different tone. Perfection can often lie precisely in seemingly insignificant details, and the insistence on the perfection of these details certainly plays a small role in Apple's success.
Source: Cult of Mac
He probably didn't mean it with the tightening of the bolt, didn't he? Pneumatic tightening tightens the screw exactly according to the requirement of the joint, it does not have to be asked or tightened manually.
he was a skrablicke magor.