At first Hertzfeld thought that Tribble was exaggerating, but after two weeks of working with Jobs, he became a keen observer of the phenomenon. “The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand,” he said.

Steve Jobs found lessons in *every* experience and brought those ideas back to Apple. I found 4 surprising examples spread across 4 different books. 1. How to recruit talent from J. Robert Oppenheimer: “At Pixar, it was a whole company of A players. When I got ... See more