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November 8, 2011
"I’ll know it when I see it."
That was Jobs’s credo, and until he saw it his perfectionism kept him on edge.He looked at the title bars—the headers that run across the top of windows and documents—that his team of software developers had designed for the original Macintosh and decided he didn’t like them. He forced the developers to do another version, and then another, about twenty iterations in all, insisting on one tiny tweak after another, and when the developers protested that they had better things to do he shouted, “Can you imagine looking at that every day? It’s not just a little thing. It’s something we have to do right.” -- Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 8, 2011 9:12 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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That's not an example of genius, its an example of poor leadership and fixation on cool.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 8, 2011 12:24 PM