About This Book
Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs is the rare book about a technology figure that reads like a novel, because Jobs himself was a character almost too large and contradictory for real life. He was visionary and cruel, creative and controlling. I came to this book as someone who has spent much of my life at the intersection of technology and business. Jobs understood something that most technologists miss: that the best technology disappears into the experience it enables. He did not just build computers. He built objects that people fell in love with. Whether you admire him or not, understanding how Steve Jobs thought is essential for anyone trying to build something that matters.
For those fascinated by the psychology of power that made Jobs who he was, Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power provides the playbook that many Silicon Valley leaders have followed.