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Sep 23, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: business , science , technology , united-states , non-fiction , 21th-century , biography.

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View 2 comments. Nov 01, Lynne Spreen rated it really liked it. When I was at the halfway point I became struck by what a jerk SJ was. Yes, he was brilliant and all that. But he seemed to view other humans as nothing more than ants in his ant farm, sub-biologicals that he could squish whenever he felt like it. And did. Some might say that his gifts to tech development, or the fact that he changed and invented whole industries, would compensate.

Maybe the two things went together, cruelty and brilliance. But the lesson to be drawn here, future CEOs, isn't that his cruelty fed his brilliance. He was brilliant, and he was cruel, and they weren't linked. He was aware of the pain he was causing other people, yet like so many other overbearing, thoughtless and petulant overlords, Jobs was thin-skinned.

Also, I don't believe that his often-cited sense of abandonment, from having been put up for adoption, justifies his behavior. He was, as the author put it, "bratty. A thousand different variations of white weren't satisfactory.

He wanted a new color to be invented, regardless of the damage done to the rollout of the new object. As I said, I'm only halfway through the book.

Hopefully there'll be some positive info about SJ that will balance out some of the negativity I've spelled out. I'll finish this review when I finish the book. Here are the rest of my thoughts. Isaacson makes an interesting point when he says Jobs was a genius. He means genius not in terms of a high IQ, but in terms of an ability to see things in surges of intuition, inspiration, and creativity. Because of his genius, I agree that Jobs deserves to be included in the company of Edison, Franklin, et al.

Steve Jobs pushed everybody until they wanted to kill him, but the pushing yielded amazing, brilliant new products. His unique brainpower allowed him to see how things might align, merge, and serve each other, and how utility might be blended with art.

That vision led to creations of whole industries. His obsession with perfection and control led him to flirt with emulating the Big Brother that Apple was created to bring down.

One of the fascinating threads of this book was the debate between proponents of closed and open systems. Was it better to manufacture a pristine, inflexible system or the messier free thinking open system? And what were the implications of that belief on Jobs' view of his customers and his worldview? Yet he defined petulance.

His food had to be just so. He would send back a glass of orange juice three times until finally satisfied it was fresh. He was vindictive, cruel and even Machiavellian. He wasn't much of a family man, and he ignored his kids to a painful extent. Isaacson mused that Jobs' meanness wasn't a critical part of his success.

He was totally aware of its effect on others, yet he indulged. In spite of my aversion to the man, I actually felt empowered as I came to the end of the book. Steve Jobs had lived by certain precepts, which in the current economy we could all benefit from: Know your value Have a skill you can sell. Be really, really good at something. Unbending to the end, even the prospect of death didn't soften him up much, but he brought me up short on the last page of the book, because I am obsessed with the same question: "I like to think that something survives after you die.

It's strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. So I really want to believe that something survives, and that maybe your consciousness endures. Since we'd just had a serious storm, I declined to rinse it. View all 37 comments. Nov 10, karen marked it as oh-dear. View all 56 comments. Shelves: biographies , r-r-rs. Never expected to find this much enjoyment reading a biography.

Isaacson has truly done a wonderful job with this book. For those who are too busy to read the entire book, please try to grab a quick read of the last two chapters of the book at a book store or airport or someplace - These chapters are a concise summary of the entire book as well as the thesis Isaacson builds up to throughout the book.

Besides, it will probably make you buy and read the whole thing anyway. To call this man a "Great Never expected to find this much enjoyment reading a biography. To call this man a "Great Marketer" is probably a great disservice to him and Steve would probably have had a fit about that. I used to think of him as an epitome of modern marketing as well, but he would probably classify marketing as 'evil' in his radar.

He hated the idea of any company focusing on marketing and emphatically states that is the whole problem with most companies today. This is probably a difficult idea to get to grips with, but is essential too. We could truly be in a better world if they do.

Just to clarify, I am not a fanboy of all apple products though I am sure the Mac is the best tech device till date but I do I fall on the android side of the fence. But, Jobs' philosophy on running companies and driving innovation is the best in the modern age and should be copied shamelessly, if not their product features I am looking at you Samsung.

View all 13 comments. Nov 17, Peter added it. Executive summary of Isaacson's "Steve Jobs": - Remove everything that is unnecessary. But these are not spoilers. The drama of this biography is in the decisions Jobs made, the way he followed through on these ide Executive summary of Isaacson's "Steve Jobs": - Remove everything that is unnecessary.

The drama of this biography is in the decisions Jobs made, the way he followed through on these ideals. Read the book. In the same way that you understand a proverb much more after you've had a life a experience that demonstrates it, these will mean much, much more when you see them in the context of Steve Jobs' life.

Plus, you'll also discover Jobs' equally as compelling character traits: from his idealism to his irascibility. View 1 comment. Nov 11, Rusty Widebottom rated it liked it.

My background is as a post punk rocker. So naturally I view all dope-gorging smelly long hair Dylan-worshiping hippies with a certain amount of suspicion and disdain. The author shows, on a page-by-page basis, what an insufferable asshole Steve Jobs was. I'm not exaggerating. But the book left me wondering: why? The book is fairly well researched, but except for a precious few anecdotes about his youth, very little is said about his upbringing. I'd really like to k My background is as a post punk rocker.

I'd really like to know more about his family dynamic. What was his parents' parenting style? Anyone who has grown up with siblings can attest to the influence of siblings on their personality. To me the lack of insight into his teen and pre-teen life leaves a glaring hole in understanding the man. My opinion of Steve Jobs: The ends don't justify the means.

I don't care how creative or driven you are; you're not allowed to be an asshole to your fellow human beings. View all 19 comments. This is an amazing inside view into the life of one of the great businessmen of our era. A must read. The thing that struck me most about Steve Jobs was that he was an incredible perfectionist. He was a craftsman, and wanted the computers he built to be beautiful and amazing and useful. He believed that computers were "at the intersection of technology and liberal arts" - a phrase he used a lot - because he realized computers weren't just for geeks.

They are for everyone, and needed to be able t This is an amazing inside view into the life of one of the great businessmen of our era. They are for everyone, and needed to be able to be used by everyone. Steve put design at the top of product pyramid at Apple - above engineering. This means they spent a lot of time trying to fit the hardware into the beautifully designed cases the designers came up with, and the designers and engineers had to work together closely.

This can backfire eg Antennagate , but largely it worked really well. It produced amazing computers that were visually distinct from everything else in the market, and that "just work".

If I learned anything from this book, it's that Apple believed that design is paramount, and spending extra time and engineering resources to make a beautiful design work is worth it. Apple's design philosophy is to "make it simple.

Really simple". You still see this today - go to Apple. Now try Amazon. According to the book, Jobs learned this from Markkula, who taught him that "A great company must be able to impute its values from the first impression it makes". Steve's ethos was basically that if you are going to do something, do it right. The book is full of examples of Steve doing this. When the iMac first came out it looked like no other computer.

It was interesting to hear how difficult it was for the engineers to accommodate a handle on the computer - but it ended up being a defining feature of the computer. I also loved the story of how Steve was obsessed with quality glass, and ordered the highest end stuff he could find for his Apple Stores. Steve's management tactics got a lot of scrutiny in the book - and many other reviewers use words like "jerk" to describe him.

It sounds like Steve could definitely be a jerk to work for. His management style was to push people as hard as he could, and to let people know when they didn't perform. When pushed like that, a person can have one of two reactions: they either resent it, and end up quitting or getting fired B-players - or they accept the challenge to do better, and come back the next week with something even better.

Win-win for Steve - he filters out the b-players and gets his a-players to produce the best work they can. But, as was pointed out in the book, if Steve was nothing but a jerk, he wouldn't have built a company full of loyal employees - Apple has one of the lowest turnover rates in the valley.

Jobs only hired people who "had a passion for the product". I also liked how he motivated by looking at the bigger picture; such as the story of how he convinced his engineer that saving 10 seconds off the boot time was worth it because across 5 million users that would save lifetimes per year. The book was full of references to Steve's dynamic personality; his "reality distortion field" is a great descriptor.

Steve believed he could do anything - and he was so persuasive that he could convince those around him that they could whatever it was too. I think this is one of the most defining qualities of an entrepreneur - believing something can be done against all odds. Not being afraid to tear down walls or think outside the box. I loved the description of Steve that "whatever he was touting was the best thing he ever produced.

He is always using words like "best", "amazing", etc to describe whatever he's launching. A big theme that the author made was that especially early on, Steve viewed Apple as "counter-culture" rebels. They were hippies who thought they could change the world. And they did - but not only that - I think they embedded their can-do attitude deep in Silicon Valley, which is probably highly correlated with why it is the center of the technology revolution today.

This quote is classic: "The people who invited the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently. The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence. When Jobs came back to Apple from his hiatus the biggest innovation he made was to focus the company onto just the few products that were working or had potential.

Microsoft didn't have that problem, and that's why Windows dominated. I think it's also the reason that Windows is in trouble today.

They have spent a decade making their code work across hundreds of different hardware configurations. Their code is now full of backwards compatibility support that just makes it messy, and bloated. Worse, their focus is on maintaining all that instead of innovating and improving it. The platform vs integrated approach is being tested again with the iphone vs android. It will be interesting to see if history replays itself, or if Apple's lead and ability to make a superior product because of their full stack control will prevail.

In the end, this was the best quote of the book: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Nov 03, Katie rated it liked it Shelves: allow-myself-to-introduce-myself. The publishers forgot to include a subtitle, so I've taken the liberty of helping them come up with one.

May I suggest: Steve Jobs: Unrelenting Narcissist, Suspected Sociopath and Giant Fucking Asshole Isaacson writes a great biography: He tells a coherent, cohesive story, he interviews all the players and most important he doesn't feel the need to hoist his subject on a pedestal with his pen. When it comes to carrying a story, our author did all the right things. His subject, however, left m Oops! His subject, however, left much to be desired. It's startling to see how someone can be so immensely successful in one aspect of his life and such a complete, utter failure in virtually every other.

To illuminate just a few of the many failings of Steve Jobs, allow me to expound upon my proposed subtitle: Unrelenting Narcissist : It's true that if you're going to launch a business in a cutthroat industry and be willing to fight to the death to succeed, you gotta believe in yourself.

Jobs, however, took a little positive self-esteem to a whole new level and chose to recreate truth to position himself in the best light. He steals the concept of the GUI from Xerox and it's collaborative sharing, but Microsoft does, well, anything and it's because they're thieves, and we have no respect for thieves.

Good ideas? He took credit for them, even if he would veto them upon first review. The man truly believed he could do no wrong, and I can't help but think he probably, just before taking his last breath, was thinking, "Well there goes the future of Apple.

The man - Jobs, not Wong; Wong is amazing - fit the profile to a T: Despite having the ability to charm someone's head off when he needed to, Jobs had an absolute lack of genuine regard for almost everyone around him - his wife, his employees, his poor, cast-aside daughters his son seemed to escape his scorn, which is a charmingly sexist detail , even his supporters I can't bring myself to call them friends who were there for him from the beginning.

If a person could not - or could no longer - provide a benefit to Jobs, he would cast them aside Giant Fucking Asshole : There are seriously almost too many examples of this to count, but let me curate a sample for your consideration. He screwed one of the founding members of Apple out of founders stock that would now be practically priceless. He thinks he can explain away the abuse he doled out to employees by saying that was "just who I am.

Do you not think that the people around you want to rip your head off every single day? They do, I assure you. But you know what? It's undeniable that Jobs was fantastically talented and will go down in the books as one of the great visionaries in history. I'm writing my review on my MacBook, and both my iPhone and my iPad as well as a slew of iPods, Nanos and Shuffles are nearby, so I guess the guy was doing something right. Still, I don't believe that being an asshole is the answer, and I don't believe it gets better results; it may not get worse results, but if today's Apple is what he created with vinegar, then I'd love to see what he could have done with honey.

View all 9 comments. Aug 18, Diane rated it really liked it Shelves: biography , audiobooks , design , innovation , business , technology. I had to be convinced by a GR friend to read this book, similarly to how Isaacson had to be convinced to write it. Back in , Steve Jobs approached Isaacson and asked if he was interested in writing Jobs' biography. Isaacson declined several times, thinking that it was too soon to write one and that it would be better to wait a few decades.

It wasn't until when Jobs' wife bluntly told him that Jobs was seriously ill from cancer and that there was little time to lose. Isaacson said he hadn I had to be convinced by a GR friend to read this book, similarly to how Isaacson had to be convinced to write it. Isaacson said he hadn't known Jobs was sick; she said few people knew and that Jobs had been trying to keep it a secret.

Isaacson finally agreed to write the biography, and Jobs agreed that he wouldn't have any control over the book, which was rare, considering how controlling and demanding he had been over all the various projects at Apple. I had been reluctant to read this book for several reasons. First, because Jobs was a known jackass and I wasn't that interested in reading the various examples of his jackassery.

Second, I am not a techie, and while I like and use Apple products every day, I was hesitant to spend my precious reading time on a tech book. Thirdly, this bio is more than pages long! That seemed excessive. A solution was found in an audiobook read by Dylan Baker , and I am glad I gave it a chance. I was won over early on in the book, when Isaacson included a quote from Jobs in the introduction: "'I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics,' he said.

The creativity that can occur when a feel for both the humanities and the sciences combine in one strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin and Einstein, and I believe that it will be a key to creating innovative economies in the twenty-first century. I love the idea of combining artistry and technology, and it's true that Jobs and Apple excelled at creating innovative and beautiful products.

Despite my hesitation, I ended up enjoying the stories of how Jobs got his start in computers, and how he met and started collaborating with Steve Wozniak, and the evolution of products at Apple over the decades. Growing up in the 80s, I frequently used those early Apple computers.

My friends and I played games on them, and I wrote my school reports on them. Apple computers were just so cool. I liked learning the details of how Jobs helped design the products, including his emphasis that even the parts that are not seen should be beautiful and well-built. He had learned this at a young age from his father, who was a mechanic and a craftsman, and he taught Steve to make sure that the back of something was crafted just as well as the front, even if no one saw it.

Jobs took the spirit of artistry very seriously, and always insisted that the designers at Apple were making art with their products. He even had his design team sign the inside of the computer frames, just as a painter would, even though no one but them knew it was there.

Another part of the book that I found interesting was Jobs' history with Microsoft founder Bill Gates, with whom he had a fiercely competitive but mostly respectful relationship. The two men had very different ideas about system design, and computer techies will probably enjoy the debate of open vs.

A lot has been written about what a jerk Jobs could be, including telling people to their face that they sucked, that their designs sucked, and that they should be fired for their suckitude.

It is also true that he was a dirty hippie, and in the early days of Apple, colleagues had to beg him to take a shower. Jobs thought that because he was a vegetarian, he didn't need to bathe.

At certain points, I was infuriated with Jobs, both over his treatment of others and later, over his refusal to deal with his cancer diagnosis. When he first learned he was ill, he defied his doctor's advice and delayed having surgery to remove the tumors, giving them months to spread.

While impossible to prove, it is likely he could have greatly extended his life had he not been so stubborn in avoiding modern medicine. In the end, I admit I was fascinated by Steve Jobs. He had a remarkable life and career, and while it is a cliche, his products helped change the world.