Original Article on The New York Times

Had enough of Steve Jobs? Didnt think so. In the current issue of The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell dissects Walter Isaacsons biography of Mr. Jobs, and we read what Mr. Gladwell read, and we decided to write about what he wrote about what Mr. Isaacson wrote about. Its a meta-world, why fight it?Yes, there are plenty of juicy asides about Mr. Jobss legendary prickliness he was picky right to the end, running through 67 nurses in his final visit to the hospital before he found three he liked but Mr. Gladwell burrows in on the nature of genius, specifically asking the question of what Mr. Jobs was good at. To shed light on the light-bulb thinking that drove Mr. Jobss successes, Mr. Gladwell rows back to the very beginnings of the industrial ...(read more)