I'm glad I never worked for Apple while he was there. Though I have unfortunately worked for someone with very similar traits.

Even though he is dead and can no longer improve himself, people will use him as a role model and idolize all the bad stuff too.

I’m not sure why it is being reposted in 2026, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_of_Alexandria

He is a canonized saint of Catholicism and revered as a virtuous defender of Christianity. More evidence based history instead indicates he was a narcissist primarily motivated to elevate himself politically in Alexandria which included wide spread murder and the destruction of the greatest intellectual institution the world had ever seen.

If we bury these stories, and always only talk about it when people are long dead or not at all, we as communities will not evolve out of those patterns. A culture that "honors the dead" by not talking about the bad stuff they've done is catering to its abusers.

Today, we should talk about Trump, Musk, etc, also in the light of how they treat their children. And what we can and should do to protect those that cannot protect themselves.

We all have responsibility - the ability to respond. If we look away from the stories, we will also look away when something happens near us. And it should encourage us to grow in how we treat other people (especially children) around us. Yes, this can bring up difficult feelings about our own acts, and our own childhood experiences. And it should.

I haven't read much about Tim Cook being anywhere near the level of sycophant, or raising the curtain to show the ugliness behind, as much as some of the others.

As a counterpoint I would highlight Buffet, Branson, and others who have managed to fulfill their obligations to the next generation without failing to dominate their industries.

There is no excuse for cruelty to children, doubly so when they are your own. Jobs was an asshole because he was an asshole, not because he was driven.

> Once, she says, as Jobs groped his wife and pretended to be having sex with her, he demanded that Brennan-Jobs stay in the room, calling it a "family moment." He repeatedly withheld money from her, told her that she would get "nothing" from his wealth — and even refused to install heat in her bedroom.

This isn't just a career driven person

Ironic that he blamed his biological father for abandoning him, and then tried really, really hard to do the same to his daughter.

She wasn't a product of "trying to have kids". It just happened, and he denied she was his daughter for years.

It's a common misconception because so many psychopaths become examples of "successful businessmen" but they're not successful PEOPLE. Steve's arrogance literally killed him, his insistence he knew better than everyone made him ignore his cancer until it was too late.

No one should try to be the next Steve Jobs. Be better than he was, better to your family, better to your employees, better to your friends. There's no one Steve didn't try to screw at some point. That's not success.

The worshipping is completely out of line.

Nor is it uncommon that "the stepmom doesn't like the estranged kids"

Nor is it uncommon that a deadbeat dad is an asshole.

Whether or not it's true, common sense and the available evidence certainly favor Lisa.