Re:Slashdotter on the value of ideas versus execution
by davi on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @08:44AM
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From what I've read, Jobs was the hard-charging, demanding, hard-to-get-along-with type, whereas Wozniak was a mellow, easy-going, just-let-me-solder-in-peace type.
But imagine if Wozniak had also been a hard-charging alpha dog type. We might not have an Apple, because Jobs and Wozniak would have broken up as a technology 'couple' early on in their work.
Maybe something like this contributed to the original poster's failure to hit a home run in his decades of work.
This jibes with something it's taken me a long time to learn: sometimes, "going along to get along" really is the optimal path.
But imagine if Wozniak had also been a hard-charging alpha dog type. We might not have an Apple, because Jobs and Wozniak would have broken up as a technology 'couple' early on in their work.
Maybe something like this contributed to the original poster's failure to hit a home run in his decades of work.
This jibes with something it's taken me a long time to learn: sometimes, "going along to get along" really is the optimal path.