Steve Jobs's Real Genius
It has some truth to it, but ignores a lot of salient facts in favor of a cute argument (insert Gladwell dig here).<p>Steve Jobs' had many parts to his genius.  Tweaking products until they were really finished was one.<p>But I would say the most important (and impressive) part of his genius was <i>holistic thinking</i>.  He wasn't a programmer, a hardware engineer, an industrial designer, an advertising copywriter, or an architect, etc.  
But he deeply understood the essentials of those fields and was able to harness them to create a hugely successful business and set of products.<p>Another part of his genius was to pick the best talent and get the most out of them.<p>This is all obvious, but after reading Isaacson's book, which was quite good, this article is basically fluff.  Gladwell basically just adds this marginally related story about tweakers so the entire article isn't regurgitating all the interesting anecdotes from the bio.<p>EDIT: Also, the use of the word "tweaker" is a stupid rhetorical trick -- the article is basically a troll.<p>"In contrast, Jobs’s vision, brilliant and perfect as it was, was narrow. He was a tweaker to the last, endlessly refining the same territory he had claimed as a young man."<p>Really?  Does anyone honestly believe a person that was CEO of 2 different companies that changed industries has a narrow vision?  This is willfully ignoring reality to make a cute little article.