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>Have you ever worked with brilliant assholes? It sucks the life out of you There's a vast difference between a "Steve Jobs type asshole" and a "Linus type ass
by crdoconnor 8y ago
>Have you ever worked with brilliant assholes? It sucks the life out of you
There's a vast difference between a "Steve Jobs type asshole" and a "Linus type asshole". The rants I read from Steve Jobs were all petty, domineering and often arbitrary.
The rants I read from Linus were (mostly) about senior developers who tried to defend broken designs and breaking simple, well thought out rules. They were entirely predictable and avoidable.
The former would suck the life out of me but I wouldn't mind the latter.
- serversystem 8y agoUnfortunately most of the world loves Jobs kind of jerks and hates Linus kinds.
- PedroBatista 8y agoThe world "loves" the persona and all the legend around him not the real person because they never had to deal with him other than WWDC and a few sightings in a random coffee shop.
- supernovae 8y agoThere isn't just one kind of asshole :) I'm more generalizing stuff our industry is bad at accepting because we all know a brilliant asshole who can appear to be nice but is locked and loaded ready to burn you at the slightest whim. In fact, i'd wager that the most difficult people to work with are the ones that can be nice at times because their unpredictability just ads to the confusion & chaos. The worst is if/when they do apologize but don't follow that up with action - i'm thrilled to see Linus committing to action!