In ‘Small Fry,’ Steve Jobs Comes Across as a Jerk.

[Chris K]

,His Daughter Forgives Him. Should We?

When Steve Jobs told his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs that the Apple Lisa computer was not named after her, it was not a cruel lie to a little girl, she insists — he was teaching her “not to ride on his coattails.”

When Mr. Jobs refused to install heat in her bedroom, he was not being callous, she says — he was instilling in her a “value system.”

When a dying Mr. Jobs told Ms. Brennan-Jobs that she smelled “like a toilet,” it was not a hateful snipe, she maintains — he was merely showing her “honesty.”

Jobs are in the history books.That's enough.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/b...small-fry.html