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The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale?
Jobs has been dead for nearly a year, but the biography about him is still a best seller. Indeed, his life story has emerged as an odd sort of holy scripture for entrepreneurs—a gospel and an antigospel at the same time. To some, Jobs’ life has revealed the importance of sticking firmly to one’s vision and goals, no matter the psychic toll on employees or business associates. To others, Jobs serves as a cautionary tale, a man who changed the world but at the price of alienating almost everyone around him. The divergence in these reactions is a testament to the two deep and often contradictory hungers that drive so many of us today: We want to succeed in the world of work, but we also want satisfaction in the realm of home and family. For those who, like Jobs, have pledged to “put a dent in the universe,” his thorny life story has forced a reckoning. Is it really worth being like Steve?
Related book: Steve Jobs(also available as an audio book)
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The War Over Who Steve Jobs Was - By Steven Levy
Walter Isaacson’s official biography of Apple’s genius leader is being challenged by a new book supported by Jobs’s inner circle. Link to article: The War Over Who Steve Jobs Was Isaacson’s eponymous biography of Jobs became a publishing...
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Steve Jobs Quote About Biology And Technology
“One of the very few silver linings about me getting sick is that Reed’s gotten to spend a lot of time studying with some very good doctors… I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology....
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60 Minutes: Steve Jobs: Revelations From A Tech Giant
His products - the Mac, iPhone, iPad and others - forever changed the way we think about technology. But how should we think about the man behind them, Apple's hard-driving co-founder Steve Jobs? In the years before his death, Jobs granted biographer...
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Steve Jobs, Revolutionary: An Ebook From Wired
Via Wired: It’s hard to imagine a better subject than the life and times of Steve Jobs—charismatic and difficult, mysterious and inspiring, with a biography that might have been plucked from Greek myth. In the wake of his death Wired presents Steve...
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Remembering Steve Jobs
As the world says goodbye to Steve Jobs, let's remember the great advice he gave on how to live."When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made...
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