I suppose one can argue omniscience isn't required for a metric on IQ, but then how do we classify people have this ability to always think they might be wrong and always searching for new data and ideas? I mean always willing to look at someone else's ideas with an open mind (up the limit of available time). I believe I may be describing myself (but not sure if I am able to objectively analyze myself so I attempt to triangulate with the way others analyze me while trying to filter out their arbitrary myopia and bias).


I am not a fan of the culture he believed in, such as walled gardens for software developers and closed, proprietary systems.

I appreciate his ability to speak frankly and have clear thinking on the generative essence of an issue. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c
http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die

That doesn't mean I agree with the conclusions he arrived at for example the prior sentence because I know open systems scale. It dismays me that his love of "purity" clouded his usual preference for scaling.

Yet I also concur with his vision that leadership and pride in the quality of work is required for greatness. Berating workers isn't necessary if we move to a Knowledge Age and where engineered components are more modular so that each person can perform his/her creative work orthogonally and not be bound in futures contracts on the greatness of others but rather standing on the backs of the greatness of others serendipitously and chaotically. Interestingly what I want is more in line with Jobs' point that "you can only connect dots after the fact" in his commencement speech I linked to above, thus it appears to me he didn't know how to really achieve the essence of what he realized. I need to elaborate on this sometime in the future when I have more free time.



Edit: Perhaps I am a collage of Jobs with an education from Superman.