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

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Walter Isaacson"s biography of táo bị cắn co-founder Steve Jobs was published Monday, less than three weeks after Job"s death on Oct. 5.
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When Steve Jobs was 6 years old, his young next door neighbor found out he was adopted. "That means your parents abandoned you and didn"t want you," she told him.

Jobs ran into his home, where his adoptive parents reassured him that he was theirs and that they wanted him.

" "You were special, we chose you out, you were chosen," says biographer Walter Isaacson. "And that helped give a sense of being special. ... For Steve Jobs, he felt throughout his life that he was on a journey — và he often said, "The journey was the reward." But that journey involved resolving conflicts about ... His role in this world: why he was here & what it was all about."

When Jobs died on Oct. 5 from complications of pancreatic cancer, many people felt a sense of personal loss for the apple co-founder và former CEO. Jobs played a key role in the creation of the Macintosh, the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the ipad tablet — innovative devices & technologies that people have integrated into their daily lives.

Steve Jobs
A Biography

by Walter Isaacson

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

"I remember sitting in the back garden on a sunny day he was feeling bad, và 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 lượt thích to believe there"s an afterlife. I lượt thích 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 lượt thích an on/off switch và click — và you"re gone." & then he paused for another second và he smiled and said, "Maybe that"s why I didn"t like putting on/off switches on táo apple devices." "

"The Depth Of The Simplicity"

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

" connected art with technology," explains Isaacson. " he obsessed over the màu sắc 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 & 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.

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

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