It’s the actual doing of something incredible, day in and day out, getting the chance to participate in something really incredible.’” ‘It’s not just the accomplishment of something incredible. The author utilizes a commencement address delivered by Jobs in 2005 at Stanford (a stone’s throw from where Jobs grew up and lived as an adult) as the framework for the story of the guy whose imagination and savvy were responsible for so many of the tech toys so many of us routinely use every day. “’Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.’” This is one of the most inspirational biographies that I have ever read.
But none approaches how culturally significant the late Steve Jobs has been throughout my adult life. There are certainly those who accumulated more money. We’ve spent the past two days taking turns, gulping down chapters of Karen Blumenthal’s addictive biography for young people about, arguably, the most significant entrepreneur of our generation and maybe even of the past hundred years.
Perhaps drawing on his Zen studies, Jobs focused as intensely on what to leave out of a product as on what to put in.” “I have a different appreciation for this phone now,” my wife said this morning, gazing down at the iPhone in her hand. But the key is to keep going, he said, until you find the ‘underlying principle of the problem and sort of come full circle with a beautiful, elegant solution that works.’ Then ‘you get into the problem and you see it’s really complicated and you come up with all these convoluted solutions.’ “Most people stop there. “You and me burning matches, lifting latches On our way back home” - Lennon/McCartney “In every case, he was seeking something that would be easier and simpler to use because, as the original brochure said, ‘Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.’ When you first look at a problem, it seems easy because you don’t know that much about it, he said.
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