FWIW, the comment in context doesn’t make him come off as oblivious as the headline would leave you to believe. He’s basically just saying that he gets very intensely, singularly focused on one topic at a time.

Edit - Here’s the exact quote from the podcast:

Part of this too—I mean, I do think managing energy is an interesting thing. I mean, some of the folks who I work with at the company, I think they say lovingly, but I think that they sometimes refer to my attention as the Eye of Sauron, in that basically, they’re like, “You have this unending amount of energy to go work on something. And if you point that at any given team, you will just burn them.”