I would hope that Tim Cook has a sense of humor about things as well as a sense of perspective about life. As such, you need to be able to laugh at yourself (sometimes) and you certainly need to separate a problem like this from your general happiness. The parent-poster could very well become "FakeTimCook" (tm).

As for Bill Nguyen, my impression is that he's become a bit too comfortable with failure, but you're right ... we don't really know what's up based on the fluff piece we read.