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How hard did Steve Jobs work?

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47 points by gws 5 years ago · 17 comments

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uniqueid 5 years ago

This is almost certainly fan fiction. The behavior (eg: Jobs' purported focus on himself — 'was it because I was being rude?' — instead of Apple or the industry) seems very out-of-character.

kbrtalan 5 years ago

Such a great piece of Steve Jobs fanfiction

  • aerovistae 5 years ago

    I thought the same thing. The story and style of writing just come across absurdly. Does this sound to people like the writing voice of a man nearing fifty in a senior role at apple?

    • adamors 5 years ago

      It reads like a kid responding to a writing prompt on Reddit. Small vocabulary, constant “lol”s, too much detail for something that supposedly happened 10+ years before, constantly making references to catch phrases. It’s not even good fanfiction.

    • shoto_io 5 years ago

      >We were walking and it was funny to me absolutely nobody who worked there said hello or acknowledged him - and most people honestly seemed to take awkward turns likely to avoid him.

      By statements like that, people who worked at Apple under Steve should be able to tell if this is a true story or not.

  • vernie 5 years ago

    I thought I was reading the "I met [celebrity name] in a grocery store" copypasta.

  • azinman2 5 years ago

    Meaning you think this is fabricated and not true?

    • carl_dr 5 years ago

      ‘I was so totally confused lol I said “fine a month”’

      Definitely doesn’t sound like a senior member of Apple's staff.

ydnaclementine 5 years ago

And then everyone clapped

yellow_lead 5 years ago

Does this even answer the original question?

  • shoto_io 5 years ago

    Yes it does. You need to scroll down.

    • ramraj07 5 years ago

      It does inasmuch as he says “yes”. Everything else in that answer, fiction or not, doesn’t even say anything about working hard. He can do everything in that passage and still only work four hours a day for all we know.

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