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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from alichalskikass]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from iguana]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@DNA, love and agree with your response(s).

However, it does seem that Jobs subscribed to the belief (also) that his soul-searching â€” spending time in India and using alternative medicine (er.... drugs)â€” lead to his success. 

As he once told an interviewer about Bill Gates, â€œHe would be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram.â€ 

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Monty_bay]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott, I am not sure Steve Job had a lifelong battle with reality and won, as he ultimately lost the &quot;reality distortion&quot; battle with the of cancer after believing he could cure himself without surgery or conventional treatments for nine months after being diagnosed. The result may have been the same from conventional cancer treatment, but waiting nine months probably contributed to his shortened life.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from nate_watson]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Personally, I think Steve Jobs had AIDS. We know he used a lot of drugs, many of which were the injected kind, &quot;putting him in one of the risk groups for the disease.&quot; He looked like one of HIV's victims in his later years, &quot;although this could also be the chemo.&quot; He had 2 types of cancer, both of which are statistically more likely to occur in HIV positive people, but are uncommon on their own, and rarer in combination. We know he was in India for a while, and who knows what he could have encountered there. We know he experimented with a wide variety of unusual diets, something that people who are medically desperate do, a lot. Bottom line, he was in a HIV risk group to begin with, and he showed several symptoms of the disease. Think about it.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Minder9]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There are a few great men and women who see in their mindâ€™s eye what the rest of us cannot.  They see the world as oddly deficient; lacking in that one thing that would make life simpler, better, more tolerable, or esthetically more pleasing.  They not only see whatâ€™s missing, they try to make the world whole.  Some are successful, some are not, but the ones that do manage to fill the gap actually affect change in the worldâ€”like Joseph Strauss, the architect of the Golden Gate Bridge, Alexander Bell, and Steve Jobs.  

Some of this change is not recognized immediately.  The arts are particularly notorious for not recognizing the worth of its contributors until after their passing.  Van Goughâ€™s genius was not well received until after his death.  The price of his passion is well known.  For many painters, their notoriety and fame only come with the â€œdeath premium.â€  There are a few masters, Rembrandt for example â€“ Bach &amp; Mozart for others, that receive accolades, wealth and fame for their work, but even they could not anticipate the profound impact of their contribution on generations to come.  This is not so unusual for the arts because despite the tangible nature of what is produced, the impact on society is very intangible.  Defining how the arts might lift the quality of life itself is not an easy concept to grasp, nor is how Jobs' impact on the structure of society has renedered personal social intercourse almost dead without his media in between.   

There are other more direct examples of filling the gap that are no less profound, but that are far more literal and contribute both to the esthetic as well as the practical.  Joseph B. Strauss, standing at the northernmost point of San Francisco watching the robust ferry traffic traversing the bay, envisioned a different solution.  He had completed hundreds of small drawbridges before he lobbied for and was selected to be the primary engineer on the Golden Gate Bridge -- a project that imbued him with enough passion to take it from conception to completion and all the political folderol that comes with it.  Each of his earlier bridges may have earnestly impacted local transportation and commerce while uniting communities, but none had more impact on society than the Golden Gate Bridge.  So utterly deep was the homage paid to this project that it is considered the eighth wonder of the world.  

Alexander Graham Bell was devoted to his wife and his mother, both of whom were deaf.  In an effort to make the world a more inclusive place he invented the telephone in 1876.  Within ten years, telephones were in over 150,000 homes and businesses and adoption continued just as fast as they could string wire and produce phone sets.  Bellâ€™s company became the wildly successful forbearer of Americaâ€™s largest communication company and hundreds of smaller enterprises that now bear his name.  

Oddly enough, as the telephone became ubiquitous, Bell refused to have one in his office, laboratory or home.  He didnâ€™t like to be interrupted and resented the intrusion.  Even more unusual, he insisted that his wife not be coddled with sign language, that she learn to get along and function in a hearing world.  Bell saw how his invention had changed the world perhaps more objectively than anyone, and knew precisely to what extent he would allow it to change how he lived in it.  

Most of us donâ€™t think about these life-altering leaps of change that swirl about us.  We simply accept them as common place without further thought to how the world was before.  We just accept it as it is today without recognizing that yesterday the world wasnâ€™t quite like this before.  Jobs somehow knew this, and made us forget that life was different before he came along.  His passion for his work did not extend into a passion for humanity.  His work may have changed how we lived, but I don't think he could have cared less for his fellow man other than as a tool for his own life's delight.
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from callcopse]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@snappybob
&quot;What?!? You've never dropped acid? I would have thought differently. It makes me wonder what the whole Scott Adams / Dilbert thing would have evolved into had you dropped a few times. I read your blog and strips regularly. It's quite amazing. All that, on a stock brain. Who would have ever thought.&quot;

He might just not be saying to be fair...I wouldn't be surprised, though I am not sure why he'd care at this point.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from DNA]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott,

I'm back like a bad penny. Blame it on the Friday.

Just one more thought to add...

There is an implicit risk involved in stereotyping human beings - may they be a celebrity, a protagonist or a creator. If there is a deception, it will be revealed at some point of time. The next generation of the deceivers have to face the consequences.

The deceit may not be purposefully calculated as was the case in the days of aristocratic empires or the post-holocaust rhetoric. It is more often the lack of righteousness or similar virtues that are hijacked by religion.

For instance, in the case of jobless steve, one may churn out a thousand peripheral influences prevailing around him, all for the simple want of just one right word that can describe his personality correctly. 

Egotistic, dictatorial, narcissistic, tyrant, liar, conman, cheat, godless American trader, ethnic despot, hypocrite, coward, fraud, trickster... include a few positives as well... a visionary leader, an objectivist, a pathfinder, a trail blazer, a vanguard, an indiscriminate seraphic...

A thousand biographies may not define the person correctly, yet sometimes a single word may do... who knows... after all that's what humans are about...

Steve Jobs is dead... lets move on...

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from KnowItAll]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A lot of Jobs' success is absolutely luck.  For example, he was lucky to be raised in Silicon Valley down the road from a genius like Steve Wozniak.  He was lucky that the previous regime (before his 2nd stint) hired a genius like Jony Ive (the guy REALLY responsible for many of the great designs we've seen).

But that doesn't feel *quite* right either.

It was Steve Jobs who pushed Wozniak to create Apple.  It was Steve Jobs who gave Jony Ive the freedom to do as he pleased (even if he publicaly took credit for all of Ive's work).  

Jobs was at least somewhat of a sociopath.  But then, aren't many great leaders somewhat sociopathic?  I think you've said yourself that &quot;leadership&quot; is a form of evil.  Oftentimes I find myself agreeing with that.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from hbmindia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[At the time of his death Steve Jobs was an immense success so now people are trying to explain his success. 
If his products had bombed, the very qualities that his success is attributed to would be held responsible for his failure.

Let me clarify that by stating the above, I do not attribute his success simply to luck. In a world that is largely trending towards the lowest common level in everything, it is heart-warming to learn of a person who succeeded by trying to do things best.
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Ardent_Eccentric]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I mostly agree with DNA... 

 I think of steve jobs as a master manipulator of western thought and ideology. He obviously knew his audience. 

I also believe His study of buddhism and drug usage was nothing but a marketing ploy to create mysticism to market his product, and ego to a whole bunch drug using, buddhist wannabe brand monkeys. 

Steve jobs almost become some sort of techno jesus out here in the west.

Bad mouth apple products and you may be burned at the stake.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Damn it. c-i-r-c-u-m-s-t-a-n-c-e-s is not a swear.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from RavenBlack]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gosh, there's a powerful reality distortion field active on this very post - my comment and at least one other that mentioned, shall we say, the !$%*!$%*!$%*! surrounding Steve Jobs' demise (which one would think would be something that would be expected to come up in this context) have vanished, and presumably were even treated as malicious spam since my entire account was gone too.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from zerotenone]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I've read the disturbingly voyeuristic biography of Jobs.  After reading it I came up with a theory as to why Jobs had so much success.  Jobs had two things: taste and sense.  That's almost the entire formula.  If you think about it, very few people in the world have taste or sense.  Usually artists have taste but no sense; those in business usually have sense but no taste.  Jobs combined both.  Add drive, a manic perfectionism, and an almost sociopathic disregard for other people's emotions and you have the keys to Jobs success.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Drowlord]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Psychedelics are pretty amazing.  I've never used acid, but I've used Mushrooms a few times which are supposedly the same, but have less &quot;edge&quot; to them -- far more pleasant -- and are much easier to acquire.  I know a lot of other people who have used them and sadly, our experiences are quite different so you can't really experience the same thing as someone else.  It grossly exaggerates the abstractions through which you see the world.  Ever since the first time, I could &quot;draw out&quot; some of the abstractions in things I see and hear if I concentrate on something, while letting myself trance out a bit.  It's been a long time (I'm a father, now), but I don't regret it at all.  One of the handful of truly defining experiences in my life -- along with scuba diving, sky diving, and some other, less controllable events.]]></description>
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