The real genius of Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs book By Walter Isaacson Review

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I really like Steve Jobs as an Innovator, a dreamer and doer. I have watched countless documentaries and read articles on him but have never read any book on him before so I decided to read the Authorized biography of the Apple founder by Walter Isaacson and this is my take on the book :) Steve Jobs, Isaacson’s biography makes clear, was a complicated and exhausting man. “There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that’s the truth,” Powell tells Isaacson. “You shouldn’t whitewash it.” Isaacson, to his credit, does not. He talks to everyone in Jobs’s career, meticulously recording conversations and encounters dating back twenty and thirty years. Jobs, we learn, was a bully. “He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe,” a friend of his tells Isaacson. Jobs gets his girlfriend pregnant, and then denies that the child is hi...