By Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli.
I was almost angry, a few years ago, when I finished reading Walter Isaacson’s official biography of Steve Jobs.
The book was well-researched, yes. But Isaacson only used that research to “prove” well-known cliches that he —and, sadly, many other people— already believed about Jobs. On top of that, the book’s tone was stark and cold and distant; and, most striking of all, it was almost mean. Overall, I kept feeling like I was reading about the myth of “Steve Jobs, the evil warlock” — Isaacson uses the term “reality distortion field”, in a serious way, an upwards of 20 times throughout the story.
“Becoming Steve Jobs” isn’t perfect. But it’s so much better than Isaacson’s book that I can’t even find an analogy that would capture the difference. If you read that book and you don’t read this one, you’re doing yourself a great disservice.
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Gabriel Coarna 