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I smell fish. Keller is for those companies that hire him as Steve Jobs was for Apple. I can't think of a single person that is better at righting a CPU company

by Daho0n 6y ago

I smell fish. Keller is for those companies that hire him as Steve Jobs was for Apple. I can't think of a single person that is better at righting a CPU company's technical direction. I would even bet a lot on money on that he have been asked by Intel.

jiggawatts 6y ago
Steve Jobs was unpopular too with a significant portion of Apple staff, and outside of Apple too. Something I've noticed is that many people prefer to work with pleasantly incorrect people over bluntly correct people. This seems to have an obvious remedy: just be pleasantly correct. Okay, now try to tell someone their "baby is ugly" in a pleasant way! It's basically impossible. Their feelings will get hurt. The difference between people like Steve Jobs and Jim Keller versus the middle managers that got to their positions through making nice is that the former don't hesitate to call people's babies ugly. Or beautiful. Or mediocre. They call it like it is, and some people just prefer to be lied to...