[ollac21]

I agree with your point, My first draft of the post had a paragraph about this.

Up to me, Jobs clearly met the criteria of what we call in psychiatry personality disorders (antisocial: failure to respect others' rights, lying, cheating, borderline: instability in relationships, and histrionic: excessive attention seeking).

Yet, I think the RDF can be used as a communication tool instead of a weapon. An idea is often worthless if it cannot be communicated. Outright stealing of others' ideas is just an extreme.

[disgruntledphd2]

Oh for gods sake, stop. Psychiatry and the labelling of others using medical terminology is no better than the fourfold system of personality of the ancient greeks, except that unlike the Greek system, its being abused by corporations to make money from human misery.

There is no, repeat no, objective test for mental illness of any kind, and ascribing particular personality disorders to public figures is somewhat like celebrity gossip, but for psychiatrists. Judge the man on his deeds, don't put a pseudo-scientific label on him to denigrate personality traits you don't like.

Full disclosure: I never really liked Steve Jobs, but he accomplished an awful lot while (apparently) being a dick at times. So what? He doesn't deserve to be tagged with the stigma of mental illness by someone who may never have met him in the flesh.