Brilliant Jerks, Crazy Hotties, and Other Artifacts of Range Restriction
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6 min readJun 14, 2019
When people write about Steve Jobs, they mention that he was brilliant but caustic: he could instantly solve design problems that had bedeviled his team for months, but he’d summarily fire people for minor mistakes. Since a lot of people want to be like Steve Jobs, and since being a genius is hard, some ambitious people play up their jerky behavior.
But Jobs was an outlier in many ways. Was he an outlier this way, too?
