Your comment seems to be more relevant to your own issues than to the actual story, but let me just point out that the "Steve Jobs" character in the story (let'

Your comment seems to be more relevant to your own issues than to the actual story, but let me just point out that the "Steve Jobs" character in the story (let's ignore the question of whether or not it's actually true) isn't demonstrating an "epic ego" at all. He's being cloyingly sycophantic. What does a man with an epic ego say when he meets Donald Knuth? Probably "Hi, nice to meet you".