[readhn]

> It's always interesting to think about who has had the more successful, fulfilling life between Woz and Jobs.

“You smell like a toilet.” This is what Steve Jobs told his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs while on his deathbed, she wrote in her new shocking tell-all memoir about her bumpy relationship with her father.

“I was afraid of him and, at the same time, I felt a quaking, electric love,” she wrote.

In her memoir, titled “Small Fry”, Brennan-Jobs says that a lot of her memories with her father were not a typical father-daughter relationship. She talks of him denying paternity despite a DNA match, not sending financial help to her and her mother, and saying mean things to her in the little times that he spent time with her.

[stormdennis]

It's like he enjoyed inflicting unhappiness on others. Is sadistic the correct name for that or perhaps psychopath?

[wsc981]

Steve's own parents abandoned him (gave him up for adoption) when he was young and so Steve was raised by foster parents. His foster parents seemed to have been really nice people, but perhaps Steve might have had difficulty connecting with his first biological daughter because he couldn't connect with his own biological father. Just speculating of course ...

[stormdennis]

Even if he couldn't have connected with her emotionally he could so easily have looked after her financially as she grew up. To have left his daughter in poverty when he was so wealthy is just the pits. I can't admire a man like that.

[celim307]

He just seems like someone who was incapable of enjoying anything he couldn’t perfect, including people. I wonder how he viewed his daughter, someone directly from his own matter but so alien to himself.

[stormdennis]

If that is true he was very shortsighted because he was far from perfect himself. I wonder is that he hated his daughter's mother and couldn't stand the thought of a daughter who was half her's. The daughter didn't count. Anyway he could hurt her was a way of hurting her mother, all the way to his deathbed.