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Steve Jobs – The man who thought different
by Karen Blumenthal
Description:
“Your time is limited….have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” Steve Jobs From the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty, created Apple in his parents’ garage with his friend Steve Wozniack. Then came the core and hallmark of his genius, his exacting moderation for perfection, his counterculture life approach, and his level of taste and style that pushed all boundaries. A devoted husband, father, and Buddhist, he battled cancer for over a decade, became the ultimate CEO, and made the world want every product he touched. Critically acclaimed author Karen Blumenthal takes us to the core of this complicated and legendary man while simultaneously exploring the evolution of computers. Framed by Jobs’ inspirational Stanford commencement speech and illustrated throughout with black and white photos, this is the story of the man who changed our world.
About The Author
Some kids hate being picked last for sports teams. Karen Blumenthal would have been happy to have been picked last if it meant that she could play. But like most girls of her generation, she was stuck on the sidelines.
Title IX became law when Ms. Blumenthal was a young teen, and for years it represented a possibility that always seemed just out of reach. That’s not so today: Most girls she knows play sports, and their opportunities are genuinely endless. Awed by the changes she has seen, Ms. Blumenthal set out to share the story of this untold social revolution. She spent two years scouring archives, academic works, and newspapers, tracking down participants and star athletes to help her reconstruct what happened.
A veteran Wall Street Journal editor and reporter and a die hard sports fan, Karen Blumenthal is the author of Six Days in October, a 2003 Sibert Honor Book. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Dallas, Texas.
Skryf Review
Good Read
Steve Jobs, creator of Apple lived a life that is extremely difficult to understand, but extremely interesting. The Author Karen Blumenthal brings his story into great detail and makes the story less difficult to understand, she causes this by breaking parts of his life up into chapters. She shares his oddness like non-cleanliness, and weird eating habits, which iskind of interesting. The book starts as him being the average rebellious teenager and goes to him being one of the most important people of the digital age. It also tells about his interesting private/spiritual life involving drugs like LSD and Pot, and how he had no regrets to his mistakes like that and also having children outside of his own marriage.
Overall the book is a great read, we feel like it is because the writer makes his life easy to understand while also giving great detail to his story and reflecting on his values.
we would recommend the book to really anyone who is interested in biographies, Apple or Steve Jobs in general. we would also recommend the book to anyone who is looking for a book to read over the weekend that is also pretty fascinating.
Skryf Review
Good Book
“Steve Jobs, creator of Apple lived a life that is extremely difficult to understand, but extremely interesting. The Author Karen Blumenthal brings his story into great detail and makes the story less difficult to understand, she causes this by breaking parts of his life up into chapters. She shares his oddness like non-cleanliness, and weird eating habits, which iskind of interesting. The book starts as him being the average rebellious teenager and goes to him being one of the most important people of the digital age. It also tells about his interesting private/spiritual life involving drugs like LSD and Pot, and how he had no regrets to his mistakes like that and also having children outside of his own marriage.
Overall the book is a great read, we feel like it is because the writer makes his life easy to understand while also giving great detail to his story and reflecting on his values.
we would recommend the book to really anyone who is interested in biographies, Apple or Steve Jobs in general. we would also recommend the book to anyone who is looking for a book to read over the weekend that is also pretty fascinating.”