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So Jobs loved to micromanage. And it worked at Apple and at NeXT and at Apple, because Jobs knew a thing or two about software. But micromanaging your own cance

So Jobs loved to micromanage. And it worked at Apple and at NeXT and at Apple, because Jobs knew a thing or two about software. But micromanaging your own cancer care doesn't work so well, does it now?

yozmsn 14y ago
A little harsh, but basically true. I SPoke to my doctor about Jobs and he basically said, if Jobs had gone with treatment when the cancer was discovered there was a 90% chance he would make it, as opposed to ~30% chance when he realized carrots aren't manna.
philwelch 14y ago
Judging from the Isaacson biography, Jobs would have been fine had he actually attended to the fact that he had cancer right away, rather than spending a year ignoring it.
- transitionality 14y ago
  He didn't ignore it, he wasted that year on alternative medicine voodoo. This detail may not have made it to the Isaacson book, I didn't read it.
  - philwelch 14y ago
    It did make it into the book--Jobs mostly spent that year eating differently, but it wasn't a major focus of his life and aside from the change in diet he did more or less ignore it. If he obsessed over it as much as he actually obsessed over things at times, perhaps things would have gone differently. But it's clear that he did not.
    - transitionality 14y ago
      It appears the book glossed over what actually happened. Jobs worked with a number of alternative medicine con artists, to no result, obviously. Obsessing doesn't work when the methodology is wrong, and alternative medicine is the wrong methodology for treating serious medical problems.
      - philwelch 14y ago
        Maybe I'm just glossing over it. The sense I got from the book was that he did a lot of stuff with diet and alternative medicine, but he also refused to focus on the problem until it was too late. One would hope that if he were that focused on it, he would have changed his mind about treatment in time to actually do something about it, rather than letting it sneak up on him for a year.

yozmsn 14y ago

A little harsh, but basically true. I SPoke to my doctor about Jobs and he basically said, if Jobs had gone with treatment when the cancer was discovered there was a 90% chance he would make it, as opposed to ~30% chance when he realized carrots aren't manna.

philwelch 14y ago

Judging from the Isaacson biography, Jobs would have been fine had he actually attended to the fact that he had cancer right away, rather than spending a year ignoring it.

transitionality 14y ago
He didn't ignore it, he wasted that year on alternative medicine voodoo. This detail may not have made it to the Isaacson book, I didn't read it.
- philwelch 14y ago
  It did make it into the book--Jobs mostly spent that year eating differently, but it wasn't a major focus of his life and aside from the change in diet he did more or less ignore it. If he obsessed over it as much as he actually obsessed over things at times, perhaps things would have gone differently. But it's clear that he did not.
  - transitionality 14y ago
    It appears the book glossed over what actually happened. Jobs worked with a number of alternative medicine con artists, to no result, obviously. Obsessing doesn't work when the methodology is wrong, and alternative medicine is the wrong methodology for treating serious medical problems.
    - philwelch 14y ago
      Maybe I'm just glossing over it. The sense I got from the book was that he did a lot of stuff with diet and alternative medicine, but he also refused to focus on the problem until it was too late. One would hope that if he were that focused on it, he would have changed his mind about treatment in time to actually do something about it, rather than letting it sneak up on him for a year.