Walter Isaacson has written another "home run" biography. Steve Jobs was a big collaborator on this project which is the first hint about his controlling tendancies. Jobs is certainly an interesting subject driven by a perfectionism that had both positive and negative results throughout his life. He was not the kindest soul and often saw people and objects in one extreme or the other. They were either bozos or geniuses, the things are shit or great. He was not good at hiding his feelings or keeping himself under control but he was a genius who cared so much about his products that it ruled almost all his decisions. He also had an ability to boil things down to a more simple problem and solution. Not always an easy problem or solution but his bullshit monitor allowed him to see past things that were NOT important. This book was great to read after my last one because it proves making a better product can work out on the business side as well. Jobs himself is not someone I probably would have wanted to spend time with but we are all better off that he was here.
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