Look at that grace, feel the sympathy.
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The envious like to snipe at Apple.
It's not just the quest for perfection that gets to them. It's the annoying habit of attaining it (or at least something close to it) that rankles.
So today, when details of Apple's genius training manual were revealed, the scoffing could be heard from Jackson Hole to Seoul.
Who do these people think they are to stop their employees from using the word "frozen?"
What sort of controlling freaks demand that their employees become something akin to those peculiar Scientology people on the street who tell you they'll um, measure your blood pressure to determine your deepest needs? (It's something like that, isn't it?)
The Apple manual is full of definitions that describe the optimum human interaction. Words like "takes ownership," "persuasively" and "gracefully."
It feels the need to explain that sympathy is "the ability to feel sorry for someone."
The good book even dares to use the word "feel," a daring plunge into deeper psychology, one that many encounter during their weekly sessions with Herbert in the bow tie.
And yet isn't this book less an exercise in control and more an example of how low human relationshi... [Read more]
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