Re: question on Two Steves

[Toma Sharple <sharpletoma@gmail.com>]

On Feb 3, 6:29 am, limtc <thyech...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Steve denied this in his biography.
>
> There are often 2 sides of the story.

I passed this along.  He certainly is interested in hearing Jobs's
side of things, but admitted that a biography of Jobs hadn't been tops
on his list of interests.

Then he later asked, which book are we talking about?  A search for
"jobs biography" comes up with a few of them.  "I, Steve", is a
collection of quotes and stories, though actually from Jobs himself.

The Walter Isaacson book seems like it might be the one you mentioned.

And, as for me, I have my own observation that there seems to be
things like "Manager Think" and "Manager Language".  A guy in charge
can walk around claiming to have done something, while the regular
Earth people would perhaps point out that he had just gotten others to
do it for him.

I could picture Teddy Roosevelt claiming to have built the Panama
Canal, (though I don't know if he ever made that claim), because he
was president at the time and was a driving force for it and all those
reasons, but he probably didn't pitch more than three shovels full of
dirt for it and didn't pour any concrete.

Steve Jobs hits me as the kind of executive who may have, in truth,
thought that he had been the guy who got Atari's contract "done" and
that Wozniak was just the specialized talent that designed the circuit
and breadboarded it.  Or, as David and Michael point out, it could be
"spinning" or worse.  I have learned not to take anything at face
value.

On behalf of my dad, limtc, thank you very much for the lead!
-toma