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There is a further point I forgot to mention. If Miles Mathis is right about Steve Jobs, then this goes back to a Phoenician understanding of how to rule expresses in Machiavelli’s The Prince: effeminate the men and empower the women and you will rule forever. It’s probably why their symbol is the Phoenix, since such female rule would result in burning down and rebuilding a civilization.

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There is another aspect of Steve Job’s sigma status that goes directly toward the very nature of Apple’s design philosophy:

Apple products are designed for women, in that they are to be so easy to use that any woman can use it. This is the key to how Jobs evolved and disciplined Apple’s approach. Being a sigma, he understood women and he built Apple around them.

Jobs observed that men like to tinker. They like choices and options and having multiple ways of doing the same thing. Men like to find different ways of daisy-chaining automatic processes to do what they want.

Women, on the other hand, do not like to tinker. They want a fixed, simple process that, by habit, becomes an incremental, easy routine requiring little time and discipline to master. The device acts like an empowering, wish-fulfillment fantasy.

On top of that, Apple’s are stylish. They convey status like a handbag. Even the design of an Apple Store looks like the makeup counter at Macy’s. And, of course, there is Apple’s logo.

Another good example of the female design philosophy is Google. A simple space where a woman can type wishes into a website. Contrast that with the old Alta Vista, where you had the same space but lists upon lists of things to click on.

Contrast Raskin’s male-centric engineering approach to Jobs and you can see it.

Women may not like to tinker but they do manage to control household budgets. Jobs approach successfully got Apple into a woman’s budget. It took a sigma’s understanding of women to build that company.

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Id like to suggest another possible historical sigma, detective king, the man who caught the serial killer albert fish. He might be an example of a sigma who is a good man. He promised the parents of one of fish’s victims that he would find the man who did this and was so obsessed with solving the case that he put off his own retirement to do it and worked himself so hard he passed out at one point. He continued to work on the case in the hospital even when all his colleagues were telling him to give up. He eventually caught him by re examining the note left to graces parents from a seemingly innocuous piece of evidence. The almost single-minded obsession seems consistent with what you describe from sigmas.

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They say JP Morgan’s eye were the same way. There were some strong behavioral parallels as well.

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Have you ever met Steve Jobs in person?

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I'm sure he would have described his personal experience if he had.

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"One of his numbers was to stare at the person he was talking to. He would stare into their fucking eyeballs, ask some question, and would want a response without the other person averting their eyes.”

This is how you cut through the BS, of any kind.

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I’m not sure Jobs learned this from anyone or if it’s even possible to fake. Frankly, I didn’t know it was associated with the SSH. I have this trait and it was not chosen, cultivated or learned. I’ve always assumed it was just a random peculiarity of facial features. It’s what I look like all the time even when I’m not using it. As noted, it’s a useful tool and I know exactly how to wield it for effect, but I also have to make a conscious effort to turn it off in some situations.

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I appreciate how the first Toy Story is a subtle exposition about the space program being a scam and the military-industrial complex being out of control. One of the greatest children's movies of all time is only one of Jobs' minor achievements. That is impressive.

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He was in Toy Story?

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He was the CEO of Pixar and the executive producer of Toy Story. The Pixar buyout, which was in part because of his declining health, made him the biggest individual shareholder of Disney.

There's a reason Pixar was ruthlessly effective which then turned into the modern Disney milquetoast mediocrity.

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Ocular intensity of a sigma = makes you uneasy

Ocular intensity of an alpha = gets you stoked

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Me vs Us

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My high school sweetheart's mother told her to keep well away from me because I had "the eyes of a killer". My wife keeps a picture of me with that look from back then to remind her of who I was before she met me.

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I think this discomfort comes from feeling exposed, as if the sigma, with their gaze, can see your past and weaknesses. And honestly, that’s probably true.

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I know a Sigma who's wife begs him to have a at least some facial hair, because without it she says he is "All Eyes"

Hilarious to see that conversation play out

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Being in tech, have you studied other tech guys?

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Is Gates a gamma?

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Yeah, just look at his ex wife when in doubt.

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(That was Vox's cute little way of saying "yes".)

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I am not interested in the constant "is X a Y" questions. You've got the tools, figure it the fuck out for yourself.

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Got it

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I wonder if America produces more Sigmas than other nations. We selected for individualism by attracting the Europeans who wanted to leave the old society and start something new in the wilderness.

Of course, we also attracted the (((Gammas))) who wanted to exploit "the land of opportunity".

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Real Americans went through weeding out processes that should have removed a lot of weakness from the genes and culture.

Were going through another round of cultural toughening now.

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It looks like America has more alphas and bravos. Germany has way more gammas then usual and China’s and japans delta population is much higher compared to other countries. That would be my layman’s assumption.

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There's probably something to it.

Also something to nations / bloodlines who produce a lot of Gammas ending up like India.

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Christian Bale should have portrayed him in the biopic, not Ashton Kutcher.

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