Clive Thompson
Dec 23, 2021

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Glad you liked it! That’s a very good point, too. I don’t want to downplay Jobs’ deep talents, which were precisely as you describe here: He was able to see the bits of innovation that were lying around un- and under-utilized, and would see how they could be brought together into a package. (He was also able to convince others to create as-yet-nonexistent technologies that were necessary for the final product, as with Corning and Gorilla Glass; Jobs literally mesmerized them into committing god knows how much R&D into a moonshot … merely to create a component for a product — the Iphone — for which he had no proof it’d be successful. That is an astonishing talent for persuasion!)

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Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson

Written by Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net

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