Glenn Gould is named as Apple’s executive role model
mainIt may come as a surprise to find an pill-popping artist who worked at night and slept by day being employed as a teaching aid at Apple HQ, but it appears the late Steve Jobs was a devotee of the Goldberg Variations.
So Boston Review editor Joshua Cohen has been hired full time by Apple to lead three-hour seminars in Gould studies for prospective executives.
Read about it here.
…the late Steve Jobs was a devotee of the Goldberg Variations.
Which recording I wonder?
Um…..it’s in the article.
Brings to mind ….The Emperor’s New Clothes and There’s a Sucker born every minute .
For once, a non-pop artist taken as a role model!
According to the biography written by Walter Isaacson he listened to both but in his last days he liked the 80’s recording because “you can hear this is a man that has gone through a lot”.
And the corporate monster keeps working on its fake image.
“Think Different” was their motto. I wonder if Tim Cook will receive the Glenn Gould prize next time around…..