It’s easy to second guess. Resist it.

After it’s all said it done, the second guessing, armchair quarterbacking, and backseat driving – even when well intentioned – often misses the point. You had to be there and you had to be in the pocket, the driver’s seat. We traders know that. Nothing feels like the trenches and no one knows unless they’re the one pulling the trigger on a trade.

So that brings me to the book, interview, and 60 Minutes segment which most Steve Jobs fans watched. It seems (to me) that the fact about his choice to put off his surgery for nine months has been met with a total lack of understanding for what made Jobs who he was.

Steve Jobs was an incredible genius because he did not accept things as they were. His reality was of his making. He willed into existence (with help from Jon Ive) the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, set a new bar for advertising, and showmanship as well. The very thinking that allowed him to envision and create was the same thinking that processed his cancer problem. The gift of this type of thinking, will, and genius does not simply switch off and why it seems people cannot see this (frankly) surprises me. It was in many ways the ultimate cost of his genius.

It’s human to regret the decision. It’s more human to wish things were otherwise. The only tragedy is to remember Steve Jobs for how he died instead of how he led Apple.


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