Apple's first employee: The remarkable odyssey of Bill Fernandez

Around the time of the Apple IPO in late 1980, Woz decided to give away stock options to the earliest Apple employees who had never gotten options -- including Randy Wigginton, Chris Espinosa, Kottke, and Fernandez. He gave them each a stock grant out of his own chunk of shares. It was a generous move, especially towards Wozniak's old neighbor and friend with whom he'd built his first computer and helped become Apple's first employee.

Wondering how that vision loops back to his childhood in the Japanese styled home. What kinds of interface? What definition of simplicity?