A lesson from Steve Jobs

Of course we are all mourning the death of Steve Jobs. Virginia Postrel wrote an especially nice appreciation of him back in August. My own one meeting with Steve Jobs came 30 or more years ago, when I was invited to a dinner at Congressman Pete Stark’s house at which Jobs was the honored guest. This was in, I believe, in the late 1970s, and Jobs was trying to convince Washington types that the government should buy a computer for every student. Of course he had a particular kind of computer in mind, an early Apple model.