deified

Celebrate the man for what he did, not some deified hero icon.

I really hope pg comments on this, I'd like to know how he feels about being deified or whatever, like this.

Seeing your CEO as a deified subject is a serious crisis in the tech industry

The problem is that he is in general deified for being an all-round genius, not just a painter.

If she turns around Twitter despite Musk's involvement, she'll be deified by MBAs everywhere.

I think part of the problem is how we've deified the MBA/"executive" as a fundamentally higher class of being. I am not knocking what such people do.

I'm a bit bothered by how Linus is deified as the sole creator of Linux. This phenomenon of course is not unique to Linux and Linus, of course.

What we need is a model where behaviour like this is not tolerated and people like this are not deified. Peers that disagree with them need to speak out and say something.

Ronald Coase, who is deified in modern conservative economics circles, said as much in his seminal 1960 paper on the FCC.

The point is that da Vinci is deified as "renaissance man", that is, a genius in science, engineering and mathematics as well as art, not just as a painter. For this I see no evidence whatsoever.

If you were one of the most successful people on the planet and at the head of a company that deified you, you could probably do with a memento mori as well.

The US also carries a burden of weight of years, AU Government is just over 120 years since 1900 Foundation and still relatively nimble, the US has ossified and become somewhat deified in the eyes of some since its creation. Strong agreement on the election of judges, etc.

I strongly suspect he felt deified by it, felt that the market was giving him unqualified approval for his every thought and method. Somewhere in his ascendancy, I suspect that EA became merely a vocabulary of stock responses that he used to explain his decisions and to frame his public image.

> The US also carries a burden of weight of years, AU Government is just over 120 years since 1900 Foundation and still relatively nimble, the US has ossified and become somewhat deified in the eyes of some since its creation. The US national constitution says nothing about the division of power between state and local governments.

However, it's good advice if we think about just being competent instead of being a smart deified rockstar. If you are handed a spec and documentation for all the APIs you will need to use, and instead of reading or thinking about anything you just demand that I walk you through it one step at a time, all day, there is a plain old competence issue and it is wasting time.