Apple.com has a beautiful tribute to Steve Jobs, who died one year ago today. Click on the screenshot below to watch the video. Here is what I wrote one year ago today after I learned of Steve’s passing. Here are all the Steve Jobs posts on this blog. Here is the video on YouTube (unless … Continue reading Apple’s Tribute to Steve Jobs, One Year Later
In an interview with Wall Street Journal columnists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook offers a few answers on Apple after Steve Jobs: Q: How is Apple different with you as the CEO? What did you learn from Steve? Cook: I learned that focus is key, not just in running a company but in … Continue reading Apple after Steve Jobs
John Gruber has an excellent critique of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. I’ve read the biography last year, but I couldn’t make an informed critique like this: There is much that is wrong with Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, but its treatment of software is the most profound of the book’s flaws. Isaacson doesn’t … Continue reading John Gruber’s Critique of Walter Isaacson’s Biography of Steve Jobs
Late last year, Michael Morisy contacted the the FBI, with a request under the Freedom of Information Act to attain the FBI files on Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple. His full correspondence appears here. “Several individuals questioned Mr. Jobs’ honesty stating that Mr. Jobs will twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals,” … Continue reading The FBI File on Steve Jobs
Today marks two months since the death of Steve Jobs. You’ve read incredible eulogies, countless personal remembrances, and perhaps have finished reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of the man. I wanted to share the video below, a brief 46-second clip featured in a recent PBS documentary. It vividly captures Steve Jobs’s spirit and his vision for the world: … Continue reading Steve Jobs’s Vision for the World
I’m a bit late to this, but Maria Popova, editor of Brain Pickings, has a wonderful personal post reflecting on the life and legacy of Steve Jobs: I grew up in Bulgaria in the 1980s. Before the fall of the communist regime in 1989, scarcity underpinned the status quo — of commodities, of information, of … Continue reading Steve Jobs as a Modern-Day Jules Verne
On October 16, 2011, in a memorial service at Memorial Church of Stanford University, Mona Simpson, Steve Jobs’s sister, delivered the following eulogy. And it’s absolutely breathtaking. It’s far and away the best (and most human) thing I’ve read about Steve Jobs after his death. Do read the whole thing. I will admit getting teary-eyed … Continue reading The Last Words of Steve Jobs: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW”
Today, Steve Jobs has passed away at the age of 56. I am so sad. Tonight, I watch, again, Steve Jobs’s commencement speech from Stanford. This is some of the best advice you’ll ever hear: Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that … Continue reading R.I.P. Steve Jobs
Wow. Steve Jobs just resigned as Apple’s CEO. Biggest news of the day, by far. That earthquake on the East Coast yesterday? This is an earthquake for the West Coast. Tim Cook becomes Apple’s new CEO while Jobs transitions his role as Chairman of Apple’s Board. The WSJ has a nice list of the best … Continue reading Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple’s CEO
You might have heard that the CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, has taken an indefinite medical leave. This is the third time in the last ten years that Steve Jobs has stepped aside from the biggest technology company in the United States. If you don’t know much about the company or Steve Jobs’s nature, then there … Continue reading Apple and the Legacy of Steve Jobs
Books I Read 