{"id":40399,"date":"2023-08-21T14:31:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40399"},"modified":"2023-08-21T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:31:26","slug":"fake-steve-jobs-and-letters-from-bill-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/21\/fake-steve-jobs-and-letters-from-bill-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Steve Jobs and Letters from BILL G"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Sephton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On 9th August 2006, “Fake Steve (Jobs)” started blogging at The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs<\/em><\/a>. The blog featured scathing criticism of Silicon Valley and the tech industry at large, a pinch of political satire, along with many in-jokes and pandering to the zeitgeist. It was, above all else, very funny. A year or so after it began the identity of the ghost writer was revealed as journalist Dan Lyons<\/em>. The blogging eventually stopped as the (real) Steve Jobs<\/em>’ health deteriorated, and a single posthumous post<\/a> appeared the day after his untimely death. I often think about Fake Steve<\/em>, some of his best lines, some of his funniest observations. It was a different time.<\/p>

Anyway… imagine my surprise when, earlier this year, I discovered that somebody in Japan had done a “Fake Bill (Gates)” a decade before Fake Steve<\/em>! Truly, everything is a remix<\/a>.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

After the column had been running for around 6 months, ramping up to the publication of the first book, a teaser\/promo website<\/a> was introduced featuring a selection of letters. This is cool because internet was still pretty new at this point! Both the books and the website feature letters in their “original” English<\/a> as well as in “translated” Japanese<\/a> (of course, this is the opposite of the real order of events).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n