Reply to: Technical PM is handing out Steve Jobs biographies

[Mich the Tester]

About 3/4 way through it. The guy was a psychopath and sociopath with severe emotional retardation and social skills of a brick.

He also managed to make Apple world beaters twice, fund Pixar and negotiate them into very good deals with Disney and make shedloads of cash and live his life on his terms. So I guess he wins.

Refusing cancer treatment and necking carrot juice instead is plain crazy though.

So he'll teach me to treat people like tulipe, make a lot of money while doing so and then die before I get a chance to enjoy it by being too daft to get the best out of modern medicine?

I think I'll hand this present on.

[Epiphone]

About 3/4 way through it. The guy was a psychopath and sociopath with severe emotional retardation and social skills of a brick.

He also managed to make Apple world beaters twice, fund Pixar and negotiate them into very good deals with Disney and make shedloads of cash and live his life on his terms. So I guess he wins.

Refusing cancer treatment and necking carrot juice instead is plain crazy though.

[Sysman]

One of the main criticisms that I've read in reviews seems to be that there isn't much in there about the wilderness years between leaving Apple and returning. There's stuff about prior to leaving, and all the stuff since the return, but next to nothing about the missing years - which I think could have been an interesting part.

Yep. Both NextStep and his venture into Hollywood with Pixar might have made good reading from the Plan B perspective.

[wobbegong]

...as chrismas presents.

Very grateful, obviously. Anyone read it? Should I bother or should I just leave it on the bookshelf as a monument to geekdom?

Re-wrap it, and give it back to him. "What a coincidence", "Great minds think alike" etc, etc.

[TheFaQQer]

In Steve Job's case you get involved in a film company

I wonder how different things would have worked out if George Lucas hadn't got divorced and needed to sell off (what eventually became) Pixar.

[Spacecadet]

this gets good reviews:
iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business eBook: Jeffrey S. Young, William L. Simon: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

[Mich the Tester]

In Steve Job's case you get involved in a film company

He didn't sit around in his dressing gown pot noodling then?

[Spacecadet]

So what do geeks usually do when they're benched?

In Steve Job's case you get involved in a film company

[Mich the Tester]

there isn't much in there about the wilderness years between leaving Apple and returning...which I think could have been an interesting part.

So what do geeks usually do when they're benched?

[Pondlife]

I started it, and then decided that there were significantly more books in this world that I was more interested in reading instead.

I'm sure that if you worship at the shrine of Apple, then it makes good reading. One of the main criticisms that I've read in reviews seems to be that there isn't much in there about the wilderness years between leaving Apple and returning. There's stuff about prior to leaving, and all the stuff since the return, but next to nothing about the missing years - which I think could have been an interesting part.

A bit like the Bible then?


Edit: I haven't read either tbh

[TheFaQQer]

I started it, and then decided that there were significantly more books in this world that I was more interested in reading instead.

I'm sure that if you worship at the shrine of Apple, then it makes good reading. One of the main criticisms that I've read in reviews seems to be that there isn't much in there about the wilderness years between leaving Apple and returning. There's stuff about prior to leaving, and all the stuff since the return, but next to nothing about the missing years - which I think could have been an interesting part.

[MarillionFan]

Could be worse. Could be the Little Mix Christmas single.

[d000hg]

...as chrismas presents.

Very grateful, obviously. Anyone read it? Should I bother or should I just leave it on the bookshelf as a monument to geekdom?

If you're anything of a geek, I'd imagine it's worth a read regardless if you are a MacBoy.

If you don't want it, post it to me

[Mich the Tester]

I suppose I could call it an iDidn'treallywantthis.

[Spacecadet]

Shouldn't mock really
Apple went out of their way to invent a reading device which works without batteries or external power, can be easily shared, uses a common language interface and is so cheap its being given away!