Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his āfanboysā who have attempted to use the billionaireās IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.
My feelings are that Steve Jobs was the quintessential cultural personality CEO and his early death sent a lot of people desperately looking for the next one, who ended up being Elon.
The difference was that Jobs actually had taste and a good vision for the future. He could build a smart team and let them drive progress then motivate to go further without making things up like Elon. So the media papered over Elonās wild confabulation, instead of showing him in a true light.
Steve Jobs tried to cure his cancer with essential oil. If that doesnāt scream dumbass I donāt know what is
Most of thatās false though. He couldnāt build a good smart team, Wozniak could. He was very good at screwing others out of ownership in the company they helped build though. He was also very good at one thing, envisioning a computer in every home, and a computer in every pocket. That was his one true talent.
But he was not āsmartā. He died to cancer detected early enough to heal with modern medicine, but chose quack treatments instead. There really isnāt any such thing as general intelligence. Everyoneās got very specialized knowledge in some topic, and are idiots in everything else.
Na, that is just historically inaccurate. The original Macintosh team collected their stories/memoires at folklore.org, which give you a pretty good overview of his talents. He was really mercurial and Woz was the better engineer, but played a really important role in the vision/design of computers as we know them today. In the original Mac team others did the engineering and Jobs never claimed to be and engineering type of person, but he had a good feel on the importance of design, clear visual metaphors and good interaction design and pushed the team relentlessly into that direction.
He was quite good at marketing. He wasnāt a technical guy and apparently wasnāt terribly good at driving technical people either. But he was great at selling whatever the tech people came up with.
His only smart trick was to sell things super expensive to flatter the ego of the buyer. Itās not rocket science.
some, like me, are idiots in everything
elseI doubt that.
Time has been kind to Mr. Jobs. Read about his early years at Appleā¦ he was famous for skewering anyone that disagreed with him. He also had lovely habits like parking his sports car in handicapped spots so he didnāt have to walk as far. You canāt disagree with his talent for running a company that did an awful lot of innovation, but he wasnāt a nice guy. He named one of his first products, the Lisa after his daughter, but didnāt treat the actual daughter that well.
He also told the daughter it wasnāt named after her for most of her life.
I may be misremembering but I think she wasnāt a child anymore by the time he acknowledged that he was her dad.
For a āsmartā person, his death was quite possibly a very unintelligent way to go. He basically decided to give all kinds of āholisticā crap a chance to treat his cancer and avoided medical intervention for almost a year. If he had gone with the medical path from the onset, he might still be alive today.
But he did have his moments. Like how he basically told the music industry to cut out the DRM, because it just made the ecosystem impossible. Or one time when someone was picking at him over abandoning OpenDoc in favor of Java (Java didnāt work out either, but his response was on point, without being dismissive of the person).
Cancer sucks. Itās hard to judge someone from dying when everyone dies. I do agree with you that treatment would be better. However finding out you are going to die has a grieving process. He took too long. But I kind of get it.
steve didnt take SHOWERS. he stunk up the office and his employees had to beg him to clean himself before meetings with potential investors and customers