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It's not that I'm a "stalker fanboi" so much as you've apparently been living under a rock for the last thirty years if you haven't heard this shit before. Did
by astrodust 9y ago
It's not that I'm a "stalker fanboi" so much as you've apparently been living under a rock for the last thirty years if you haven't heard this shit before. Did you know Bill Gates founded Microsoft? No way! Did you know Steve Wozniak built the original Apple? Get out! This is not mind-blowing news.
It's also irrelevant. This ended up being some bullshit compendium when, given the unprecedented access, you'd expect better. They could've written this book based on anecdotes and old press. That's the problem.
- bborud 9y agoIf you made a point of getting to know people outside your sphere, you would be surprised at how little some people know about these things. That you take this for granted says more about you than Isaacson’s book on Jobs. For instance: I don’t follow football. Which means that you can pick any football celebrity in the world ever and at most — at the very most, I may be able to connect a name to the face. But I wouldn’t know what they’ve done or who they’ve played for. In the unlikely event that I would read their biography, it would be helpful to provide ample context. Now the thing is that do the comments here help me determine if the book he wrote on da Vinci is accurate? No. Not really. Not any more than random newspaper reviewer opining on the quality of the writing.