Secret History #8: The Rise of the American Kakistocracy

They promised us the sun, the moon, and the stars. We got Bari Weiss and Sam Altman.

I think it is fair to say that everything sucks now. For all his faults, Steve Jobs was obsessed with creating a superior product. He would manipulate and bully his team until they met his high expectations, and they loved him for it. In his biography of Jobs, Walter Isaacson said that it was as though Jobs had a “reality distortion projector.”

When Tim …