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Steve Jobs
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"So you've uncovered the fact that I'm an asshole. Why is that news?" - Steve Jobs to a Fortune Magazine editor.
I can't compose a review of this remarkably candid biography without being painfully aware that Steve Jobs would call my review a piece of crap and send me packing. (It's not easy having, as your creative-genius hero, someone you know would find you lacking.) So I'll settle for saying this was a surprisingly emo read for me.
And one more thing.
I've worked for and with some real assholes In my long career. Screamers, belittlers, credit-grabbers, the whole array. None of them were geniuses, though; none were people I respected, so they couldn't hurt my feelings. They could make me so angry I wept, but they couldn't hurt me, heart-deep. This man would have been able to do that. He was brilliant; maybe the one American business executive I have ever admired.
One other thing: Steve Jobs is an overwhelming presence in this book, to the extent that I and others seem to forget there is an author involved. That's talent.
Rest well, Steve Jobs. Composed on my iPhone in a rainy parking lot. So thanks.
I can't compose a review of this remarkably candid biography without being painfully aware that Steve Jobs would call my review a piece of crap and send me packing. (It's not easy having, as your creative-genius hero, someone you know would find you lacking.) So I'll settle for saying this was a surprisingly emo read for me.
And one more thing.
I've worked for and with some real assholes In my long career. Screamers, belittlers, credit-grabbers, the whole array. None of them were geniuses, though; none were people I respected, so they couldn't hurt my feelings. They could make me so angry I wept, but they couldn't hurt me, heart-deep. This man would have been able to do that. He was brilliant; maybe the one American business executive I have ever admired.
One other thing: Steve Jobs is an overwhelming presence in this book, to the extent that I and others seem to forget there is an author involved. That's talent.
Rest well, Steve Jobs. Composed on my iPhone in a rainy parking lot. So thanks.
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Reading Progress
March 4, 2014
– Shelved
March 4, 2014
– Shelved as:
to-read
October 5, 2015
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Started Reading
October 9, 2015
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"A fiction writer couldn't invent a character more fascinating. So many contradictions."
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October 13, 2015
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50.0%
October 18, 2015
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90.0%
October 21, 2015
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90.0%
"YoYo Ma brings his Stradivarius to Steve Jobs kitchen, after jobs is diagnosed with cancer. He plays Bock. Says jobs "you're playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the existence of God.' Okay, I'm crying"
October 26, 2015
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Finished Reading
December 21, 2016
– Shelved as:
audiobook-yes
December 21, 2016
– Shelved as:
non-fiction
