Steve Jobs was hilarious
I’m reading the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, and I’m loving how Jobs was just SO MERCURIAL. I especially love when he just decides he hates the design of something. It happens A LOT. Anyway, my favourite mercurial Jobs anecdote in the book comes near the end, when he’s in the hospital for cancer treatment:
At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was deeply sedated. Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it. Though barely able to speak, he ordered them to bring five different options for the mask and he would pick a design he liked. The doctors looked at Powell, puzzled. She was finally able to distract him so they could put on the mask.
He also hated the oxygen monitor they put on his finger. He told them it was ugly and too complex. He suggested ways it could be designed more simply.
See? Hilarious! I want a book entirely composed of anecdotes about Jobs being mercurial. I want stories from people who waited on him in restaurants. He was always sending things back and ordering off the menu! He’s like a cartoon character! Steve Jobs the RASCAL.
