Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Odd Jobs

NYT columnist Maureen Dowd on Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs tome: An Apple C.E.O. who jousted with Jobs wondered if he had a mild bipolarity. “Sometimes he would be ecstatic, at other times he was depressed,” Isaacson writes. There were Rasputin-like seductions followed by raging tirades. Everyone was either a hero or bozo. 

Mild?  Sounds hardcore in my DSM-IV. With Steve's mind in mind, it is tempting to diminish the Book of Jobs.  Jobs had warneth Obama "You're headed for a one-term presidency." To which Fox News The Five host and veteran Dem campaign guru Bob Beckel respondeth: political naïf Jobs doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.  Or words to that effect.

Poynter's Steve Myers dug out this verse from the Book of Jobs on the Apple founder's relationship with News Corp's Rupert Murdoch:

Poynter also pointed out that Jobs was hell-bent on helping the NYT charge online readers:

It's also important for the country not to take everything Jobs sayeth as gospel.  
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5 comments:

  1. We have a remarkable desire in our society to proclaim universal competence. 
    Somebody knows something, ergo he knows everything. 
    So we listen to hollywood types spew about policy.
    We listen to the mediocre public pick the most talented.
    So Jobs was merely a computer biz genius.  I'd no more have had him predict politics than I'd have had him change the oil in my car.

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  2. Well-put.  Why didn't Jobs bail out the NYT with his millions?  Probably for the same reason the notoriously stingy billionaire was a non-philanthropist.

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  3. Actually it's about 9 Billion in "CASH."  Apple had 9 Billion in "CASH" sitting in the "BANK."

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  4. Well, ZD, Steve could've helped NYT avoid robber baron Carlos Slim to whom NYT owes its continued existence.

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  5. Hmmm...Jobs...the beat goes on.  Nice touch Jimbo!  How true..

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