Steve Jobs book initiated by his wife Laurene
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«But Laurene Powell Jobs wanted people to be able to directly hear her husband of 20 years. “He has been written about, but this is actually his writing and his work,” she said. “So there’s no intermediary.”»
«The idea for the book grew out of an initial 40-page pamphlet that the group behind the archive, led by Silicon Valley historian Leslie Berlin, mocked up in 2017. As they kept adding items, especially photos, it grew into a book of about 250 pages.»
«The book’s material, ordered chronologically, focuses on Jobs’s inner thoughts, philosophies and mantras more than his business decisions or how he became one of the preeminent corporate leaders of his time.»
«In contrast with all his time in the public eye, Jobs’s emails to himself are a mental version of dancing like no one is watching.»