You've somehow managed to originate two insanely useful pieces of software: Linux, and Git.
Do you think there's anything in your work habits, your approach to choosing projects, etc., that have helped you achieve that level of productivity? Or is it just the traditional combination of talent, effort, and luck?
Linus - My observation is that folks who're blindingly successful have a degree of asshole-ness to them. Jobs, Gates, Musk, Torvalds. Probably the US founding fathers, and Einstein and Edison. All the right degree of 'f em, I know what needs to be done.'
Is that a correct assessment of you? do you have an external face, and one that is the more real you, or are you an asshole through and through?
Jobs, Gates, Musk, Torvalds. Probably the US founding fathers, and Einstein and Edison.
Thats a stretch! All of those men were brilliant high achievers, but only one group was ruthless enough to launch a war that killed a hundred thousand people, mostly their own, and achieved no obvious gain except to the 1%-ers. (Were Canadian commoners so much worse off?)
Much as I admire the intellect of people like Jefferson and Adams, they took assholeness (ruthlessness?) to a level that makes Bill Gates look like a saint.
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You've somehow managed to originate two insanely useful pieces of software: Linux, and Git.
Do you think there's anything in your work habits, your approach to choosing projects, etc., that have helped you achieve that level of productivity? Or is it just the traditional combination of talent, effort, and luck?
Asshole-ness required (Re:Productivity (Score:2, Interesting)
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Jobs, Gates, Musk, Torvalds. Probably the US founding fathers, and Einstein and Edison.
Thats a stretch! All of those men were brilliant high achievers, but only one group was ruthless enough to launch a war that killed a hundred thousand people, mostly their own, and achieved no obvious gain except to the 1%-ers. (Were Canadian commoners so much worse off?)
Much as I admire the intellect of people like Jefferson and Adams, they took assholeness (ruthlessness?) to a level that makes Bill Gates look like a saint.