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by earthfriendly » Sun, 09 Oct 2011 1:39 am
Like many organized operations, schools, governments, non-profit, for profit, you name it!
"High tech organizations are complex psychology play-grounds for under-acheivers, bullies, psychopaths, brown-nosing-low-talent tail riders, back-stabbing opportunists, low talent empire builders, and an assortment of other personality quirks that could likely be candidates for the DSM. Left to their own devices and propensities these people quickly derail many software organizations, leading to superfluous diversity of ideas/features/implementations that serve no other purpose than to allow the ... mediocrity to establish a stake in the product and some element of job security and career growth (well at least until they smother the business/products in a layer of dank crud). Jobs knew this and fought incessantly to preserve Apple's integrity."
He had his less-than-admirable ruthless side but he also served as an inspiration to many. It is possible to make a well designed product that inspires and be made available to the masses. The human being is a complex animal. We are not completely good or completely evil.
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