If 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

If 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.