Steve Wozniak
speaker
809 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 21 May
Steve Wozniak’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You can't teach somebody two cognitive steps above from where you are.
High school was brutal for Wozniak's social life.
Other kids were flirting and making small talk that Steve couldn't even relate to.
Imagine being smarter than nearly every adult on the planet and being stuck in high school.
He retreated deeper into electronics, but he found one way to connect with his peers, pranks.
In 12th grade, he built an electronic metronome, removed the battery labels so that they look like plain metal canisters, taped them together, and wrote contact explosive on the bundle.
He stuck it in his friend Bill's locker, but a teacher found it first and ran with it onto the football field.
When they hauled Bill to the office, he immediately recognized Wozniak's craftsmanship and gave him up.
Wozniak couldn't stop laughing in the principal's office.
The prank earned him a night in juvenile detention, where he taught the other inmates how to remove wires from the ceiling fan to shock the carts.
The pranks would continue for the rest of his life, only he'd be much better at not getting caught.
But Steve's real obsession was happening alone, behind closed doors.
In his senior year, he discovered something that would change his life, the small computer handbook.
It described a mini-computer, and Wozniak spent sleepless nights studying it, figuring out how to build his own version.
He started designing computers on paper.
It was really messy at first, full of errors.
But it was the start of something incredible.
Soon he was collecting manuals for every mini computer being made.
His ritual never varied.
He wrote, because I could never afford the parts to build any of my computer designs, all I could do was design them on paper.
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