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While I think the book was worth the read, I think Isaacson was wrong on so many small and big things and failed to go into others, and he really did a poor job with the book. I recommend the two Hypercritical podcasts about the book, which really goes into some depth about the problems with the book:

http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42 (starts 18 minutes in) http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/43

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The short version is that Siracusa recommends "Infinite Loop" by Michael Malone as the best single source for Apple history prior to the return of Jobs, and he says that the post-return material in the Isaacson book (ie, everything unique that it offers) is poor and/or limited.

Siracusa and short version are not things that go together and long may this last. The only tolerable thing about my daily commute is listening to him discuss his pet peeves. File systems, TVs, programming languages, the Minecraft install process (great episode) ebook formatting etc. He must be interesting to know as there are very few things he appears just accept and use without pondering improvements.

I never get tired of listening to his Incomparable episodes on "Star Wars." And, of course, the final Hypercritical episode, in which he dissected his own podcast.

The Minecraft install process was on his new podcast. Here's the episode: http://atp.fm/episodes/25-thrustmaster-joystick

But yes, John Siracusa is a national treasure.

"Who the hell is Casey?" :-)

Casey's quickly become one of my favorite hosts. He seems like such a nice and entertaining person.

Indeed. Until John and Marco talk about the Mac Pro for an entire episode. That's when the dam. finally. breaks. :-)

The Minecraft install episode of ATP spoke to my soul.

For some reason I never heard much about this screed by Maureen Tkacik (formerly of the Atlantic).

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/02/22/the-book-of...

This episode was fantastic, thanks for reminding me how much I love listening to John Siracusa.

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