Have you read the Steve Jobs biography?
I’m about 3/4 of the way through the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs. Have you read it? It is completely absorbing and has had my mind spinning on a whole bunch of different levels. I like to think of myself as a big-picture person who can handle ideas and creative people in productive ways. But as I reflected on what Steve Jobs and Apple were like (at least in the early days) I am not sure I could have been a part of the Jobs universe. He was the master of the “reality distortion field.” What that means is he lied when it served his purposes. He also was very eccentric personally, having weeks on end of just eating one thing like carrots or apples. And then not bathing because he believed his diet meant that he did not produce normal human sweat or smells. And everyone and everything he met was either the absolute best or “shit.” From my reading, Steve Jobs didn’t much tolerate the grey reality that lies between black and white. As exhilirating as it must have been to be on one of the teams he worked with to great success—at Apple or Pixar—I have to admit that I am not sure my own constitution would have been up to handling his genius-level strangeness. Would you have been up to it? What do you think?