> To me, the worst part of the fantasy is that we then consider the people that actually do make it to the "money shot" as if they were management geniuses, instead of lottery winners.
This extends to engineers and computer scientists as well.
Take Wozniak. Constantly given countless platitudes when he was most likely as qualified as many engineers at HP who never came in contact with Steve Jobs. [1] But the story is always played as "he was Einstein in the Patent office just waiting to be unleashed".
Or Marc Andressen. Was he that special when he came up with, as an undergraduate, the Netscape browser? [1] Einstein special or just "special"?. (And of course there was Jim Clark who was there to help him..). Or the google guys as phd students. The list is endless.
This is not to take away from anyone's hard work as opposed to others of equal ability that slacked off of course. Credit is due however the over the top hyperbole of the media and bloggers is quite distasteful at times.
[1] And of course nearly 100% of what most people know about these people is what is written about them by others..
This extends to engineers and computer scientists as well.
Take Wozniak. Constantly given countless platitudes when he was most likely as qualified as many engineers at HP who never came in contact with Steve Jobs. [1] But the story is always played as "he was Einstein in the Patent office just waiting to be unleashed".
Or Marc Andressen. Was he that special when he came up with, as an undergraduate, the Netscape browser? [1] Einstein special or just "special"?. (And of course there was Jim Clark who was there to help him..). Or the google guys as phd students. The list is endless.
This is not to take away from anyone's hard work as opposed to others of equal ability that slacked off of course. Credit is due however the over the top hyperbole of the media and bloggers is quite distasteful at times.
[1] And of course nearly 100% of what most people know about these people is what is written about them by others..