Essay On La Vida Robot

Both Joshua Davis, author of “La Vida Robot” and Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs have different thoughts on what will build a strong team. Joshua Davis thinks that you need people with different ideas and strong points. You need people to have different strong points to have a complete team of people. Walter Isaacson thinks that you just need ideas and someone to get them to bring them to life. Jobs could supply the products needed and help with ideas. Wozniak merged the ideas with his own, and with the supplies, brought it to life. One way the authors’ perspectives on teamwork are different is what attributes they think they need for a project to be done. Joshua Davis explained each character different that the last. “Luis was the
Davis thought that the members of the team had to be different. “Lorenzo didn’t have much to do after school. He didn’t want to walk around the streets.” (Davis 188). Oscar Vazquez- “Maybe, he thought, engineering could offer him a future.” (Davis 191) “Cameron and Ledge formed the robotics group for kids like Cristian.” (Davis 190). In “La Vida Robot” it seems that each characters has different reasons for being in the club. Lorenzo is there because he doesn’t really have anything better to do after school without getting in trouble. Cristian was there because he was interested in robotics and engineering. Oscar was a part of it because it could offer him a future as his plans for the military backfired. They all had different reasons for joining the team. Not all of them had similar interests to help them bond over the topic of the club. Isaacson had a different opinion similar to the first. The members of the group should be similar.“I’d met who knew more electronics than i did,” (Isaacson 209) “His name is Steve. He likes to do pranks like you do, and he’s also into building electronics like you are.” (Isaacson