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Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson is an research oriented, non-biased, amazing biographer, and Steve Jobs is a great book of him.
You can barely feel Isaacson opinions throughout the book, and even so, in the end (SPOILER ALTER, kind of) he says that, as a biographer, they have the almost, right to give the last word, it is even expected of them to summarize the life and works of whoever they are writing about.
But it was simply so hard to do with Steve Jobs.
He was Steve Fucking Jobs.
From mesmerizing stare, distortion field whiz that pushed people to their limits, beyond what they though possible, to his ever-changing temper, crazy tantrums and obsessions, this is a book worth reading if you want to understand both Apple's success as well as Steve as a human being.
A heavenly complex human being.
If you hate Jobs for some reason, give it a go, this book gives amazing insights on how such an ever-changing emotionally unstable guy could end up building not one but TWO amazing companies (yes, yes, Pixar was not built by him, but without Jobs there would be no Pixar at all).
He ended up creating Apple twice.
The first time around changing the digital world and computer world forever.
The second time, well, creating the highest valued company of the world and of all time.
A company that, after his dead, continues to hold strong, stronger than ever some say.
Amazing guy.
One of a kind.
You can barely feel Isaacson opinions throughout the book, and even so, in the end (SPOILER ALTER, kind of) he says that, as a biographer, they have the almost, right to give the last word, it is even expected of them to summarize the life and works of whoever they are writing about.
But it was simply so hard to do with Steve Jobs.
He was Steve Fucking Jobs.
From mesmerizing stare, distortion field whiz that pushed people to their limits, beyond what they though possible, to his ever-changing temper, crazy tantrums and obsessions, this is a book worth reading if you want to understand both Apple's success as well as Steve as a human being.
A heavenly complex human being.
If you hate Jobs for some reason, give it a go, this book gives amazing insights on how such an ever-changing emotionally unstable guy could end up building not one but TWO amazing companies (yes, yes, Pixar was not built by him, but without Jobs there would be no Pixar at all).
He ended up creating Apple twice.
The first time around changing the digital world and computer world forever.
The second time, well, creating the highest valued company of the world and of all time.
A company that, after his dead, continues to hold strong, stronger than ever some say.
Amazing guy.
One of a kind.
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August 1, 2015
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September 30, 2015
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