- Peter Thiel: The end of the future – http://t.co/8ld52n7w /cc @GregorMacdonald @timoreilly ->
- Backstory on that birthday video clip – http://t.co/ovHWBKpl ->
- Only 300 views? Remarkable video: To Steven Jobs on His Thirtieth Birthday – http://t.co/9qUxte8D ->
- Heartbreaking: Jobs authorized biography so his kids can know him – http://t.co/qkWURTFL ->
- Such fun … Prevalence of Deception in Humans: Evidence from Diving Behaviour in Soccer Players – http://t.co/bU9pvoln ->
- My friend @jaltucher in inimitable form: If You’re a Billionaire You Probably Have One of these Six Diseases – http://t.co/LkL6Nu18 ->
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Re. Jobs:
At the risk of sounding like a wanker, I can't say I felt particularly mournful about his death — except to the extent that death in general is a meloncholy thing. His work didn't inspire me or fill me with the kind of hope others seem to have felt. He was a genius and made some great (really nifty) products. Did he change the world? Probably. But so did the guy who invented the washing-machine.
Carl
Re: @jaltucher
He's your friend? Seems perfect then. Two peas in a pod, two basket cases, to neurotics. What a crock of crap he wrote about billionaires based on little data and using the word "probably". I can think of two billionaires who probably didn't / don't have any of those six so-called diseases: Steve Jobs and Pierre Omidyar. Oops, looks like @jaltucher didn't collect enough billionaire data did he. Awe shucks, you might as well add a third pea to the pod, your friend Henry Blodgett the nervous neurotic crackpot (but who can blame Henry, coming from a wealthy New England family with high parental expectations).
Normally I just delete this sort of nonsense and block the commenter permanently, but I'll leave this one here for now, mostly because it's so completely, gibberingly mad. Spelling mistakes, humorlessness, baseless accusations, arguing from exceptions, gross generalizations: it's like a 101 course in "How to Get Blocked".