Steve jobs walter isaacson book
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Steve Jobs
Introduction
In a clear, elegant biographical voice, Walter Isaacson provides an unflinching portrait of the most important technological and innovative personality of the modern era: Apple’s founder and chief thinker, Steve Jobs. Through a series of unprecedented interviews with Jobs—as well as interviews with more than friends, family members, colleagues, adversaries, admirers, and imitators—Isaacson documents the transformation of an ambitious Silicon Valley whiz kid into one of the most feared and respected business leaders of his generation and quite possibly of all time; arriving at some hard truths about a man who defined the intersection of art and technology for the digital age and the future to come.
Topics & Questions for Discussion
1. Discuss Jobs’ harsh binary system of appraisal. Why do you think it worked so well in tangent with his style of leadership? Do you think there is merit in living to such high standards? Is it unrealistic
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson was born on May 20, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received a B. A. in history and literature from Harvard College. He then attended the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke College and read philosophy, politics, and economics. He began his career in journalism at The Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. He joined TIME in and served as a political correspondent, national editor and editor of new media before becoming the magazine's editor in He became Chairman and CEO of CNN in , and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in He has written numerous books including American Sketches, Einstein: His Life and universum, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Kissinger: A Biography, Steve Jobs, and The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. He is the co-author, with Evan Thomas, of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.
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The month is halfway over and I have read one entire book so far this year. Obviously, it&#;s time to step it up.
But at least it was a good one.
I picked this book up at the library last April, after Bart and I watched the movie, Jobs.
I don&#;t know if you&#;ve seen a physical copy of Steve Jobs, but. . . .this book is hefty.
Unsurprisingly, I ended up returning it after reading only seventy-five pages or so.
I knew in my heart of hearts that the only way I&#;d get through Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson was on audio, so finally, when I had a free credit through , I downloaded it and spent a couple of weeks listening (the thing is 25 hours long. Even at double speed, that&#;s a lot of hours).
And it was tremendously good.
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
When I&#;d read the paper copy, I&#;d flown through the part about his childhood, but then got bogged down by his travels and drug use during college (snooooore. . . .), but once I got through that, I couldn&#;t get enoug