Book Review: 'Steve Jobs' By Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson

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Jobs detailed how he created those products — and how he rose through the world of Silicon Valley, competed with Google and Microsoft, and helped transform popular culture — in a series of extended interviews with Isaacson, the president of The Aspen Institute and the author of biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin. The two men met more than 40 times throughout 2009 and 2010, often in Jobs” living room. Isaacson also conducted more than 100 interviews with Jobs” colleagues, relatives, friends and adversaries.

His biography tells the story of how Jobs revolutionized the personal computer. It also tells Jobs” personal story — from his childhood growing up in Mountain View, Calif., to his lifelong interest in Zen Buddhism to his relationship with family and friends.

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In his last meetings with Isaacson, Jobs shifted the conversation to his thoughts regarding religion and death.

“I remember sitting in the back garden on a sunny day he was feeling bad, and he talked about whether or not he believed in an afterlife,” Isaacson tells Fresh Air“s Terry Gross. “He said, “Sometimes I”m 50-50 on whether there”s a God. It”s the great mystery we never quite know. But I like to believe there”s an afterlife. I like to believe the accumulated wisdom doesn”t just disappear when you die, but somehow it endures.”

Jobs paused for a second, remembers Isaacson.

“And then he says, “But maybe it”s just like an on/off switch and click — and you”re gone.” And then he paused for another second and he smiled and said, “Maybe that”s why I didn”t like putting on/off switches on Apple devices.” “

“The Depth Of The Simplicity”

Jobs” attention to detail on his creations was unrivaled, says Isaacson. Though he was a technologist and a businessman, he was also an artist and designer.

“ connected art with technology,” explains Isaacson. “ he obsessed over the color of the screws, over the finish of the screws — even the screws you couldn”t see.” Even with the original Macintosh, he made sure that the circuit board”s chips were lined up properly and looked good. He made them go back and redo the circuit board. He made them find the right color, find the right curves on the screw. Even the curves on the machine — he wanted it to feel friendly.

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That obsessiveness occasionally drove his Apple co-workers crazy — but it also made them fiercely loyal, says Isaacson.