Jobs’s sensibility was more editorial than inventive. “I’ll know it when I see it,” he said. This caption strikes me because my friend/professor in architecture just read Steve Jobs and said "Steve Jobs was an architect more than anything". We often collapse these things onto a domain more familiar to us, and the model of editor as Master Tweaker (and architect as Master Builder) seems to fit Gladwell's world of thin…
Or a director, ala Kubrick. The director doesn't hand-design everything in the film, but he guides the designers and selects what works.