(audiobook) Worth reading for so many reasons. Mainly to see from the inside how one of the largest corporations ever was built. Also, it's fascinating to know about such personalities as Wozniac and Jobs before they were famous. His LSD use, India trips, hippie lifestyle is worth reading about.
The book has a lot of omissions and inaccuracies. Isaacson is clearly biased towards him (another possibility is not having done good research, but I doubt that), so anything Jobs ever did was "Revolutionary", "the first ever", "changed the industry", etc. Now, don't get me wrong, jobs clearly had a clearer vision and more success implementing it than many of his counterparts. He himself admitted to steal ideas, so Isaacson does him a disfavour by stating they Apple did things first that were really not done first, just more successfully. Also, by insisting page after page that he single handedly revolutionized several industries, willfully ignoring all the other industry players, is clear that he succumbed to Job's charm and couldn't be objective.
but probably the most intriguing aspect about the book, is the depiction of Job's personality itself. I don't recall ever reading a biography that made me dislike so much the person (and that include's Fouche), I can't believe how awful human being Jobs was. It really surprised me how impossible was to like the guy, even when I was totally prepared to like him. His biographer kept justifying him because 'he had the soul of an artist', but that can't justify his personality, there are really creative artist (Murakami comes to mind) that would abhor behaving the way jobs did. Art can't be a justification to behave like an idiot, for anyone.
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