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loved in part because HP made it so
easy to chat with others. Every day at
10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. management
wheeled in donuts and coffee, and
people would socialize and swap ideas.
What set these interactions apart was
how low-key and relaxed they were. In
iWoz, he recalls HP as a meritocracy
where it didn’t matter what you looked
like, where there was no premium on
playing social games, and where no one
pushed him from his beloved engineering
work into management. That was
what collaboration meant for Woz: the
ability to share a donut and a brainwave
with his laid-back, nonjudgmental,
poorly dressed colleagues—who
minded not a whit when he disappeared
into his cubicle to get the real
work done.
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