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The article itself does not seem to support the headline. It is about lots of individual geniuses, but not about whether they are overrated or not. In fact, the
by Hermel 12y ago
The article itself does not seem to support the headline. It is about lots of individual geniuses, but not about whether they are overrated or not. In fact, the words "overrated" and "lone" do not even appear in the whole article, except for the title. "Genius" appears once.
- jasode 12y agoThe headline is Jeffrey Goldberg's (provocative) restatement of Walter Isaacson's themes in the book (and also Walter's answers from the interview at the end of the article). I assume the journalist took liberties to write "lone geniuses are overrated" because Isaacson highlighted: 1) teams 2) lesser known individuals who didn't have celebrity status of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc I guess one would have to read the entire book instead of an excerpt to judge if the journalist's "lone geniuses overrated" is a fair TLDR of Isaacson's book.