Re:Steve Wozniak: Steve Jobs wasn’t a natural-born leader
by throwaway_4ever on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:26PM
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I think his anti-conformity is uniform. You definitely have to buck popular convention to repeatedly lease the same car and wear the same clothes everyday. No one does that.
Re:Steve Wozniak: Steve Jobs wasn’t a natural-born leader
by unfocussed_mike on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:28PM
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It is fascinating to me that Jobs did it and everyone was like like, hey, that's just what he does. At least he showers these days.
But if anyone else consciously adopts that specific affectation they are definitely trying to rip you off. It's a tell.
He's the biological child of a Syrian muslim immigrant and an American of Armenian descent.
And then he's adopted into a sort of purely American life.
There's a whole lot of outsiderism to unpack there, and while he adored his adopted parents he seems to have struggled with his own fatherhood roles etc.
He was aloof and had a sort of paradoxical relationship with conformism -- he was consistent to his own personal design (the wardrobe full of identical outfits, the repeated leasing of the same kind of car) -- but rejected the conformism of others.
Really a lot of his manner -- including some of his more sociopathic traits -- could be explained by early disruption in life. He had quite a tough start.