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Sin_of_Onin  Posts: 1,307
Registered: 2005-6-29 08:21:12
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I don't know if there has been a thread on this but I just finished reading it and I highly recommend it. Even if you hate apple. He is a fascinating man and the biography does a really good job of capturing both the good and the bad. It is by no means a flawless book but the story and the character are exceedingly compelling.
I don't want to say to much because I wouldn't do the book justice and I may just spoil things but the book did a really good job at establishing what he contributed. It is also a book that touches on a vast array of really good issues from education in the future to the importance of those who make products and a whole bunch of other stuff. When he died I remember seeing all of these books about him and thought it was crazy but you could write a large number of books based on what he did.
You can talk about early computers, early gui, management, motivation, speaking, retail, celebrity, parenting, and on and on.
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Lyken-P  Posts: 453
Registered: 2006-1-14 18:41:19
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I think I got through like 20 pages before I got distracted and moved on. I should really go back and finish it.
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
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Lyken-P posted:
I think I got through like 20 pages before I got distracted and moved on. I should really go back and finish it.
The start is a little slow but it helps set the stage for the rest. There is also a point in the middle where it becomes clear they didn't have time to edit it properly because it was rushed out around his death.
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
Registered: 2005-6-29 08:21:12
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How can I be the only one that read this?
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Jaedence  Posts: 146
Registered: 2009-2-27 02:17:13
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I would read it but I heard it is a rehash of things I already know from previous articles or books. Jobs was a perfectionist but "real artists ship." He didn't bathe when he was younger, wore crappy clothes, fasted for weeks on end, was mean to a lot of people, strange, vindictive and incredibly creative with a good vision. He was adopted but eventually found out he had a sister, was a good tipper to his father but didn't know he was his dad.
Is there more to it than that?
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Lyken-P Posts: 453
Registered: 2006-1-14 18:41:19
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Sin_of_Onin posted:
How can I be the only one that read this?
90% of the Outpost this against anything Apple.
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Rosaria Title: They call me Mellow Yellow, quite rightly.
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Registered: 2003-8-22 10:07:30
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I read it. I had nothing to comment on that wasn't already covered in your opening post.
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__Bonk__  Posts: 5,122
Registered: 2009-7-25 03:04:52
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He wa a brilliant asshole hippie
That should be his biography
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Moe_Nox Title: In Moe We Trust
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Registered: 2007-2-4 12:17:56
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Hippie? Bonk, Steve Jobs was as far away from the title of hippie as you are from the title of gigolo.
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NuEM Posts: 1,007
Registered: 2004-3-2 09:08:11
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I don't care about it.
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