John Carmack Leaves Meta

Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by chongli on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:46AM (#34026675)

But there's a reason the folk wisdom tells you to never meet your heroes. When you do, you painfully realize that the stories didn't focus on their humanity but instead were spinning the myths of their divinity.

This is part of the reason I like Steve Jobs so much. The stories around him never failed to mention his legendary penchant for downright nasty behaviour. And yet people loved him anyway, even when they lived in fear of stepping into an elevator with him! It’s bizarre and entertaining stuff!

Personally I’d rather work with boring, reliable, friendly people in an low-stress job and focus my passion on my hobbies. I recognize that others might want to take risks and try to make something big.

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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday December 17, 2022 @07:18AM (#34027135)

I don't think many people loved Jobs, and a good few hated him.

But unlike most narcissistic assholes he was unusually good at certain things [1]. And he could be persuaded to change his mind when he was dead wrong, at least some of the time.

So that made him tolerated.

[1] Finding good people, understanding that computing is about services and UX and not just boxes, and having a goal for commodity computing that was at least as aesthetic as technological.

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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by afterburner on Saturday December 17, 2022 @01:41PM (#34030769)

The people with those stories typically made a lot of money thanks to Jobs. The people who didn't, just have a negative opinion of him.

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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by rohit89 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @03:00PM (#34031598)

If you are really good at something, people will like you inspite of your drawbacks however big they may be.

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