The Book of Jobs | The Great Debate
But like all the other internal contradictions that seem to endlessly fascinate the punditry elite about Steve Jobs, this apparent conflict between Jobs’ profound affinity for technology and his bizarre unwillingness to allow it to save his life is another pointless straw man that only serves to further elide the very Jobsian simplicity that lies beneath:
There once lived one of those really obstinate assholes who will constantly tell you he couldn’t change his assholic ways if it killed him. It killed him.
Far and away the best reaction to Isaacson’s tome that I’ve yet to read, and it even addresses the recent media bonanza over Foxconn. I’ve been a pretty vocal critic of the bio for being under edited and largely inconclusive. This article addresses the same concerns immediately before placing them inside of a larger context.
It’s uncompromisingly opinionated, and I don’t agree with its findings carte blanche. Still, placed opposite the slack-jawed babble of the Apple press of the last few months, it’s a paragon of opinion journalism. Skip the rest and read this.
