I love your newsletter, and I'm grateful for your effort and your insight over the past few years. You've helped me tremendously.
That said, you missed the mark this time. Steve Jobs is absolutely NOT a role model that anyone should respect or emulate - unless one values the most extreme capitalist ethic of destroying others to benefit oneself. There's more than ample evidence that Steve was in the top 10 list of high-functioning sociopaths in America during his reign, joining the elite ranks of those such as Bill Gates and Jack Welch. He was merciless, cruel, amoral, and hypocritical. People revere him as a tech icon, but that's just hype. His true strength was as a salesman, selling propaganda disguised as beautiful visions to geeky, clueless worshipers everywhere.
Whatever good he preached was stolen from others, and was greatly outweighed by his faults and misdeeds. And the monstrous extent of his ego can be summed up in the stubborn personal rejection of reality that led to his death. He truly believed that his reality distortion field would beat pancreatic cancer.
Reminds me of ignorant and stubborn COVID patients who refused proven treatments and whose last words were "It's not COVID".
I love your newsletter, and I'm grateful for your effort and your insight over the past few years. You've helped me tremendously.
That said, you missed the mark this time. Steve Jobs is absolutely NOT a role model that anyone should respect or emulate - unless one values the most extreme capitalist ethic of destroying others to benefit oneself. There's more than ample evidence that Steve was in the top 10 list of high-functioning sociopaths in America during his reign, joining the elite ranks of those such as Bill Gates and Jack Welch. He was merciless, cruel, amoral, and hypocritical. People revere him as a tech icon, but that's just hype. His true strength was as a salesman, selling propaganda disguised as beautiful visions to geeky, clueless worshipers everywhere.
Whatever good he preached was stolen from others, and was greatly outweighed by his faults and misdeeds. And the monstrous extent of his ego can be summed up in the stubborn personal rejection of reality that led to his death. He truly believed that his reality distortion field would beat pancreatic cancer.
Reminds me of ignorant and stubborn COVID patients who refused proven treatments and whose last words were "It's not COVID".
Not exactly a role model for the rest of us.