"More generally, I'm tired of these articles where people make up a straw man version of Steve Jobs and then attack him. I feel like I know more about Jobs than

"More generally, I'm tired of these articles where people make up a straw man version of Steve Jobs and then attack him. I feel like I know more about Jobs than nearly everyone who writes this stuff, and I don't feel confident making generalizations about his character." Most people tend to crave easy explanations as to why someone did X. They need to see their ascent so that they feel that they could have done the same if some variable Y had been there. I think that's a very human and understandable thing to do, but in this case it has gone into over drive because something has changed. Steve Jobs was a titan in an age where recording information is quite cheap indeed and everyone chronicles the minutest details of their life in some way or another. (be it through email or facebook, we're all creating heft tomes about our lives) Thanks to the age he helped along, he has the unenviable distinction of being a human being whose complexities have been recorded and will be poured over again and again until the human beings shall forget his name someday.