“After his death, Steve Jobs became mythic,” Leander Kahney writes for Cult of Mac. “He’s remembered as an asshole and a technology seer: a Tony Stark-like figure who could uniquely divine the sci-fi future, conjuring magical products from whole cloth almost single-handedly.”
“He’s also seen as infallible: a business and technology genius with powers of divination beyond those of us mere mortals,” Kahney writes. “But To Pixar and Beyond, a new book by Lawrence Levy, the former CFO of Pixar, paints a very different picture.”
Kahney writes, “The book paints an intimate portrait of Jobs at work.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Purchased!
MDN, please post review after reading…I’m still pissed about shelling out the dough for that Isaacson crap.
“Have you ever thought about what it means to be intelligent? Like you meet your friend and he’s pretty dumb and maybe you think you’re smarter, and you wonder what the difference is? I’ve thought about this a little bit myself and one of the things it seems to me is memory, but a lot of it is the ability to sort of zoom out. Like you’re in a city and you could look at the whole thing from about the eightieths floor down at the city, while other people are trying to figure out how to get from point A to point B reading these stupid little maps. You can just see it all out in front of you, you see the whole thing, you can make connections that just seem obvious because you can see the whole thing.”
“Steve Jobs: The Unauthorized Autobiography.”
https://itun.es/nl/qB1h3.l
“After his death, Steve Jobs became mythic,”
He was already a mythic figure long, long before he died.
I concur.
Apparently, Steve Jobs is beyond the comprehension of even academics. ALL the movies and most of the books about him have been lazy, resulting in getting him profoundly wrong. I hope this new author bothered to care about his subject.
(I still haven’t read “The Unauthorized Autobiography” by J.T. Owens. But judging from reviews, he’s the only one providing significant insight into Steve Jobs).
Shake the hand
That Shook the Hand
Of PT bwrnum
And Charlie Cahn
Steve Jobs was a guy who sold stuff.
Just finished reading the book. Thoroughly enjoyable. I recommend it highly. It is not so much about Steve as it is about a life journey told by someone close to him, professionally and personally. It is tangential to Steve.