Sunday, October 27, 2013

Steve Jobs


Saw the movie and was intrigued enough to pick up Walter Isaacson's biography, which I just finished while reading headlines about the horrible roll out of the Obama-care national health exchange. What I took from Job's is that to build really good product you need a directed mercurial personality that would be difficult to tolerate in government. Statements by President Obama and Secretary of Health Sibelius' staff that “failure is not acceptable” does not make a good piece of software appear out of committee. It's tough for the Commander and Chief who is used to answer a command question with “make it so” to understand that a complicated solution may not be one at all.

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