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Who would you consider to be not real geniuses? Elon musk? Steve Jobs? John Carmack? What makes one a genius "real"?
by Rinzler89 2y ago
Who would you consider to be not real geniuses? Elon musk? Steve Jobs? John Carmack? What makes one a genius "real"?
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- ngetchell 2y agoI'm not familiar with Carmack but the other two are marketers. Clever but certainly not geniuses.
- Dig1t 2y agoYou should read their biographies, both by Walter Isaacson, I don't know how you can read those books and not see that they are more than just marketers. Isaacson also wrote the definitive biographies for Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, among many other historical figures. Also "Masters of Doom" describes Carmack's career and idk about the word genius, but he is undeniably one of those engineers who's just 10x better than the average engineer.
- eikenberry 2y agoI've never heard that Carmack was a jerk. Or were you just throwing out other people that some might consider smart at random?
- Dig1t 2y agoRead Masters of Doom, which details the story of Carmack's career. He is not described as easy to get along with.
- Rinzler89 2y agoWhere did you get your info from? Where did you see me call Carmack a jerk? Carmack was known to be very difficult to work with by his peers. Tearing down walls and putting his desk in the hallway to surveil people when they came and went at id software while working on Quake. Steve Jobs did even more crazy shit. It seems geniuses, or brilliant successful people are very difficult to work with by those wo don't share the same vision and goals and are just looking for a chill 9-5.
- eikenberry 2y agoSorry, I misread. I thought you were putting up examples of possible geniuses who weren't humble and given the other examples are famous jerks, I thought you were calling Carmack one by association.
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