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Watching the video is even more revealing. Future historians will be amazed as to how a border-line aspergers case got away with engineering a virtual monopoly on computing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_2m1qdqieE

Groklaw has some interesting Microsoft Files:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009122612211929




I do not know if I would describe it as "border-line aspergers," but there were several obvious things that his prep team/PR should have addressed (e.g., hair, suit, posture, lack of explicit cues for listening to question vs. thinking about response).

I always find it infinitely surprising that these billion-dollar companies with all their prestige are constantly making simple but serious mistakes in every field of activity they are present in.


Who should they hire or what should they cultivate to do better?




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