Interesting take, but let’s remember how many geniuses are crazy fucks. It comes with the territory much of the time. From Jackson Pollock to Elon Musk. (Ed Harris’s movie on Pollock is heavy on the negative, and people I met who knew Pollock said he was a terrible alcoholic but really a nice guy. None of the nice guy is in the movie and it’s still a…

I Didn’t Work for Steve

I saw “Steve Jobs” yesterday and loved it. That’s because I didn’t work for Steve, or even meet him.

Although I never came any closer to Jobs than buying Apple products, I’ve still read and heard all the Steve legends and seen all the other movies. I’m up to my…

Zadie Smith neatly captures how out of his depth Sorkin is on Zuckerberg in NYRB: “From the opening scene it’s clear that this is a movie about 2.0 people made by 1.0 people.”

“Don’t we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls. Sorkin, confident of his foundation myth…