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> 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.



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