So, the net of all is this. In all of our opinions the guy was a visionary. His like will not be seen again soon. Most of the extraordinary are obsessive and that's how he is getting labeled. Obsessiveness leads to rough edges when dealing with others. They say not so nice things about you as a result. I know this first hand. But I can tell you from my own obsessions, that they are driven not out of pathology, but the drive to actually accomplish something meaningful. You can't get it done if others don't see the vision, and you can't always depend on others to care as much as you do that the end thing is perfect. So you obsess and work all hours of the night, and micro manage others that you need have help you, to have the vision become a reality. You even make enemies of those that you hire/enlist to help you sometimes because of the drive. Ask Megan what it is like to try to live up to my expectations and demands, and I don't have 1/1000th the vision or the passion of Jobs. These are behaviors that outsiders to your thinking/vision view as "not normal", and cause people to view you as "difficult" to say it politely. Screw them. While I am not even vaguely in his league, no week goes by that someone doesn't ask me why I work 7 days a week at something 14 hours a day. Obsessively passionate people aren't normal. I don't want to be normal. Hate me. Love me. But do not look at me without an opinion. Anything less than those two extremes and I am not trying hard enough. Steve was likely me to the tenth power. That's why no one will ever forget his contributions to changing the world. He will be an icon. He will also be remembered by some as flawed. And in their life of being an also ran, they can find comfort in his flaws.

He had a disease that almost no one survives, and I don't care what "version" of the animal you choose to call it. This is seriously bad cancer.

So let's not second guess this or him any longer, and let's give the man his due. He made his own choices in life, and at the end of the day, we are all the architects of how things turn out. His was too short a time, when he was really coming into manifesting "what people don't even know they want." I think he played the hand he was dealt in his own way, for his own reasons, his whole life long, and that is good enough for me. Owning apple everything, I am his biggest fan. History will portray his visions, not his failures.

Thank you, Brian. You have said so well what I'm sure many of Steve Jobs' biggest fans are feeling right now. His time with us was way too short.