"The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. The tweaker inherits things as they are, and has to push and pull them toward some more nearly perfect solution. That is not a lesser task."-Malcolm Gladwell characterization of Steve Jobs
I read this article on whether Steve Jobs was a visionary or a tweaker. The author, whose work I love, shows through several exampled from the book that he feels that Jobs was better at identifying what was missing instead of suggesting a vision. Even though I think this is an extreme example it probably was true.
In my reading of the man I can see how he was not a technical visionary but a functional tweaker who knew when the design did not meet his desired goal.
One can think of the two types as a step change or a ramp. It might be easier to tweak than to step change.
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