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Well, the other thing is that smart people like Steve Jobs can easily learn new skills and acquire knowledge even after college. He worked in tech for decades, so I'm sure he's read more a few books and/or experimented with tech hands-on :) Heck isn't programming one of those skills that we say you don't need to go college for?

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experimented with tech hands-on

And by "experimented," you mean he was employed by Atari as a solder jockey and more. The guy knew tech in ways today's javascript abstractionists could never imagine.

Yes. And there was a story [1] about Steve knew something ( an algorithm? or something to do with Video or colour space ) in great detail that he jumped to question how was certain problem being dealt with before the Engineers got to start his presentation.

And yet people constantly bash Steve Doesn't do any programming. I am willing to bet he knows a lot more about tech than any of the so called "Software Engineers" today.

[1] Sorry I search for a few minutes and couldn't find anything. I remember it was on HN. But all my search query failed. So if anyone knows please post the link.

Your [1] , its here: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Steve-Jobs-thrive-in-a-technic...

Which is a link I actually posted in my question, lol.

Indeed, I thought they might have missed it :)

Yes Thank You. I read the first part of the link and I thought that was not it and skip it.

Turns out it was. My bad. Lesson here: Dont Trust your memory :)

Seemingly little known fact, at least in this forum, is that Steve Jobs authored a fairly technical, albeit short, article in the '70s, entitled "Interfacing the Apple Computer" [0].

[0] https://archive.org/details/interfacing-the-apple-computer

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