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Bud Tribble

Original Macintosh software manager who coined the reality distortion field.

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The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

  • Managed the original Macintosh software team and helped design the classic Mac OS and its user interface.
  • Coined the phrase reality distortion field in 1981 to describe Steve Jobs's effect on the Mac team, and later co-founded NeXT.

Apple

Macintosh software manager

Managed the original Mac software team and helped design the classic Mac OS; later a co-founder of NeXT.

Why

Why we celebrate them.

You kept a legendary, impossible team pointed at the same north star. Thank you, Bud, for holding the software vision together.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

  • Wikipedia
  • Reality distortion field
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