Perplexity sent me this story about Steve Jobs at Pixar today. I have looked up to Steve Jobs so much since I was ~11 years old. But it’s hard to square my positive impression of his grand vision, attention to detail, and sustained contrarian tasteful decision making with the many stories about his selfish, rude, childish, petulant, short tempered, and immature behavior. It also puzzles me how someone can be so brilliant and successful, and such a magnet for generational talent, while also being so rude, belittling, and conflictual. How do you square it?

Perplexity sent me this story about Steve Jobs at Pixar today. I have looked up to Steve Jobs so much since I was ~11 years old. But it’s hard to square my positive impression of his grand vision, attention to detail, and sustained contrarian tasteful decision making with the many stories about his selfish, rude, childish, petulant, short tempered, and immature behavior. It also puzzles me how someone can be so brilliant and successful, and such a magnet for generational talent, while also being so rude, belittling, and conflictual. How do you square it? 

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/the-pixar-whiteboard-incident-d7KhA2lmS7uPoLp9bxwUWg

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Gates. Jobs. Bezos. Musk. Cook. 

Psychopaths.

Tradfi coder by day, hacker by night. Doesn’t know night from day. Freelance scribe. Dad cook. Dog butler.  Happy Grandpa. Draws badly.

Ok. Narcissists too. You have to be to rise to the top of that space.  The counterfactual is who peaces out.

pierre omidyar’s story is kinda fun in this respect. chill dude whose chillness was (purportedly) instrumental in making ebay happen. perhaps more equivalent to woz