Was Jobs really that smart? Not sure that's the niche he filled successfully. More like Kinski, talented in some domain... but smart?! Jobs died pretty much by Dunning-Kruger effect, no?
People can be very intelligent on one area, and not as much in others.
There are many scientists who have very high standards for proof and evidence in their professional life, but accept other theories as truth without a shred of evidence in their personal lives.
Having a temper doesn't prevent one from being intelligent. Gates and Jobs had famously bad tempers too.
Was Jobs really that smart? Not sure that's the niche he filled successfully. More like Kinski, talented in some domain... but smart?! Jobs died pretty much by Dunning-Kruger effect, no?
People can be very intelligent on one area, and not as much in others.
There are many scientists who have very high standards for proof and evidence in their professional life, but accept other theories as truth without a shred of evidence in their personal lives.
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I think this might have been one of those infinite monkeys moments.
To be fair, this was nearly universally know for decades by the time he became CEO of MS.
He is just not old enough for working in a time this was new.
Wasn't he the leading advocate of stack ranking at Microsoft, though? That's not particularly insightful or philosophical, it's just lazy management.
It's almost like humans are complex creatures...
He backed the HR lead personally; I think it was their thing.