“Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson takes a non biased approach to identify the true life of Steve jobs. He puts all his resources to use creating a boundary free experience into the work and history that made Steve jobs such a profound and influential character in our society today. The book not only provides intake from friends and colleagues but also enemies of jobs to create an image untainted by bias to make sure you get the most out of this experience. Steve Jobs was quoted himself saying “He wants no control over what was written… and did not want to read it before it was published.” The book starts off with a family history and early childhood to describe the hardship that jobs had to endure. Later it goes on to describe his teen years and the meeting of his wife. I would like to point out that although the book does go into a family background, the focus of this book is much more directed to his career. The book only introduces his kids and family in the end after he is diagnosed with cancer and the beginning to get an understanding of where he grew up. I believe Walter Isaacson did this on purpose because Jobs was always very wok oriented and it wasn’t until his later years before death that family became his focus of interest. The book describes some of Jobs most well known contributions to apple including: I tunes, the I pad and the I pod. These products are given chapters in which much detail is given as to the process that went into there creation. The book also focuses on the relationship with Jobs and Microsoft and his relationship with his partner and friend Steve Wozniak before, during and after his work with apple. The strong thesis in this story reading “His friends, foes and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.” Explaining that every person Jobs ever met made a positive influence on what created his empire of great products. Regardless of friend or foe Jobs took every piece of advice he was given whether it be positive or negative and used it to fuel his rise to success in the cut throat business world. In addition to the wonderful thesis and great writing structure, the pictures that were included gave a nice family feel to the otherwise career oriented book. He had a photographer follow him throughout his life and take pictures from his start into the business world to his time before death with his family. The pictures started out very work oriented and then moved to family. It was a visual outlook on the writing that was given. The only problems I had with this book are that the book was very text heave during certain chapters which caused my attention to drift and that there were pictures, however they were very limited. There were no charts or diagrams and the photos that were there were very dispersed and minimal. Overall a wonderful biography of Steve Jobs and he would be proud to read it.
“Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson takes a non biased approach to identify the true life of Steve jobs. He puts all his resources to use creating a boundary free experience into the work and history that made Steve jobs such a profound and influential character in our society today. The book not only provides intake from friends and colleagues but also enemies of jobs to create an image untainted by bias to make sure you get the most out of this experience. Steve Jobs was quoted himself saying “He wants no control over what was written… and did not want to read it before it was published.”
ReplyDeleteThe book starts off with a family history and early childhood to describe the hardship that jobs had to endure. Later it goes on to describe his teen years and the meeting of his wife. I would like to point out that although the book does go into a family background, the focus of this book is much more directed to his career. The book only introduces his kids and family in the end after he is diagnosed with cancer and the beginning to get an understanding of where he grew up. I believe Walter Isaacson did this on purpose because Jobs was always very wok oriented and it wasn’t until his later years before death that family became his focus of interest. The book describes some of Jobs most well known contributions to apple including: I tunes, the I pad and the I pod. These products are given chapters in which much detail is given as to the process that went into there creation. The book also focuses on the relationship with Jobs and Microsoft and his relationship with his partner and friend Steve Wozniak before, during and after his work with apple.
The strong thesis in this story reading “His friends, foes and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.” Explaining that every person Jobs ever met made a positive influence on what created his empire of great products. Regardless of friend or foe Jobs took every piece of advice he was given whether it be positive or negative and used it to fuel his rise to success in the cut throat business world.
In addition to the wonderful thesis and great writing structure, the pictures that were included gave a nice family feel to the otherwise career oriented book. He had a photographer follow him throughout his life and take pictures from his start into the business world to his time before death with his family. The pictures started out very work oriented and then moved to family. It was a visual outlook on the writing that was given.
The only problems I had with this book are that the book was very text heave during certain chapters which caused my attention to drift and that there were pictures, however they were very limited. There were no charts or diagrams and the photos that were there were very dispersed and minimal. Overall a wonderful biography of Steve Jobs and he would be proud to read it.