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There used to be a polite way to call this out, the "Steve Jobs's reality distortion field".
by nine_k 8mo ago
There used to be a polite way to call this out, the "Steve Jobs's reality distortion field".
- hamdingers 8mo agoNow that every CEO has their own reality distortion field I wonder if it's even worth calling out any more.
- nine_k 8mo agoMost are not nearly as smooth and successful at the distorting.
- Nevermark 8mo agoSomehow Tim Cook's many year's position that the lightening port was very important to Apple vs USB-C, fell flat as a parsec wide pancake. (It didn't help that they couldn't point to a single user facing feature.) Or that the App Store lock in is for our safety. When anyone who wanted that particular safety, could choose to continue using there store exclusively. Etc. He just does not have it. No field. No spiraling eyes. Perhaps he should grow a beard and wave around a tobacco pipe. Works for some.
- jimbokun 8mo agoNo current CEO has a RDF comparable to Jobs. Musk is probably closest, but he’s become so involved in partisan politics it makes his field far less effective at distorting reality.
- seec 8mo agoMusk is leading the build of the biggest objects we have ever sent to space. It does give him some sort of aura that is hard to dismantle, let's be honest. He can do and say a lot of shit because he will still be viewed as real-life Iron Man, because in some ways he kind of is.
- __patchbit__ 8mo agoElon Musk would put Apple's money sloshing about over the years to better uses than failing to build one battery electric vehicle costing $1 billion a year over many years. He doesn't have a RDF but has Kardashev Scale Intent (KSI). The lobbyists in the political fray are out to steal his value for money lunch despite his demonstrated effectiveness, over and over again. Jobs couldn't even engage the politicians to give away or at discount the Apple ][ to education.