When you listen to some of these early recordings, you realize how far ahead Job's thinking was from almost everyone else. Then you realize it took him decades to eventually ship these things. Despite being often a dreadful person to deal with, he was an original thinker who could actually ship things even it took most of a lifetime.

I left Apple a year before he came back, I still regret it.

> Despite being often a dreadful person to deal with, he was an original thinker who could actually ship things even it took most of a lifetime.

Honestly, what is so admirable about this? There are a lot of people who take visionary stances and ultimately fail - these stories rarely get talked about. I'm sure there are more than a handful of visionary stances that Jobs took that never formed. It's survivorship bias at its finest.

Don't get me wrong, Jobs is/was an impressive person, but he gets a Midas-like reputation that is beyond cult like.