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Work detailsSteve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (2011)
I listened to most of this while playing Temple Run. (  )  Scott.Grimmwise | May 14, 2013 |  Rating: 3 Stars for the Writer 4 Stars for the Content Writing a biography about a person who is single-handedly credited with building some of the foremost intellectual properties in this world isn't a menial task. The eccentricity and the compulsive nature further plays its part and only toughens the task. The book [b:Steve Jobs|11084145|Steve Jobs|Walter Isaacson|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TNSBq4F5L._SL75_.jpg|16005831] further comes with lot of hype and expectations and that's what may have killed the better part of it. I will try to focus my review more towards the book and not its content. [a:Walter Isaacson|7111|Walter Isaacson|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1192222433p2/7111.jpg] does a pretty decent job of writing it as clear and as transparent as possible or so as he claims throughout . But, the writing still suffers and at times isn't able to captivate the reader. The book though extremely voluminous is still readable and being high on quality content is its major draw. But despite of what the writer proclaims, it still misses out few episodes of Steve Jobs' life specially the Microsoft incidents. In all the book is worth reading for the man is worth knowing. Inspite of what he may come down as, he still deserves to be known. "For alas what is man, a bundle of imperfections." A word of caution to the the Apple/Steve Jobs fanatics, you may not find much more than you already know in this book until you reach the later half of the book. (  ) Nikunj.Agrawal | Apr 15, 2013 | I didn't feel the want to continue reading; thereof I stopped. Might try again a different time, maybe I wasn't in the right mood for reading this book. (  ) Wilwarin | Apr 7, 2013 | This book was "docked," so I picked up. I was surprised by how interesting this biography was. He was both a jerk and a genius. I was struck by how much he changed our digital world (as I type this on my macbook Air) and by how much he was driven by creativity. To remember: Art requires revision and revision and revision until it is (Nearly) perfect. (  ) JenGennari | Apr 6, 2013 | Isaacson doesn't just tell you who Jobs was and what he did, he explains why he was who was and why he did what he did. Great book, great character study. ( )1  nmele | Apr 6, 2013 |
 Isaacson’s book is long, dull, often flat-footed, and humorless. It hammers on one nail, incessantly: that Steve Jobs was an awful man, but awful in the service of products people really liked (and eventually bought lots of) and so in the end his awfulness was probably OK. It is not Isaacson’s fault that Jobs from early on had a “admixture of sensitivity and insensitivity, bristliness and detachment,” as Isaacson describes it, or that Jobs abandoned friends, thought almost everyone else was a shithead, showed little interest in his daughters, and made life generally miserable for anyone who had to provide a good or service to him. But it is Isaacson’s fault that the biography is so narrowly focused on one moral theme. The reader is left to judge, with plenty of evidence both ways—and a clear idea of where Isaacson’s sympathies lie—whether Jobs deserves the Artist’s Exemption.  As Walter Isaacson says in this incisive biography, Jobs behaved like a Nietzschean superman, using his will – transmitted through an unblinking stare – as a remote-control device that compelled others to do his bidding.  While Jobs was a vigorous competitor, he also came to view himself as an elder statesman with a responsibility for giving advice to Google’s Page, Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other emerging technology executives, according to “Steve Jobs,” an authorized biography by Walter Isaacson and published by CBS Corp. (CBS)’s Simon & Schuster. It goes on sale Oct. 24. Mr. Isaacson treats “Steve Jobs” as the biography of record, which means that it is a strange book to read so soon after its subject’s death. Some of it is an essential Silicon Valley chronicle, compiling stories well known to tech aficionados but interesting to a broad audience. Some of it is already quaint. Mr. Jobs’s first job was at Atari, and it involved the game Pong. (“If you’re under 30, ask your parents,” Mr. Isaacson writes.) Some, like an account of the release of the iPad 2, is so recent that it is hard to appreciate yet, even if Mr. Isaacson says the device comes to life “like the face of a tickled baby.” Is abridged in
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"From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values."--… (more)
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