He October 5, 2011 there was an already expected but still shocking news, Steve Jobs had just passed away. Two months had not yet passed since he resigned as CEO of Apple, a position that passed into the hands of Tim Cook, but his absence at the presentation of the iPhone 4S (which many, due to circumstances, described as iPhone 4 (for) Steve ) on October 4, along with leaked photos of him showing him extremely thin and in need of help to walk, pointed to the worst.
If until then the figure of Steve Jobs was already essential when talking about the golden age of computing and electronic technology, his death was the definitive step, the one that led him to become a myth, who, more than ten years later, fully maintains his aura of genius, visionary and revolutionary. In these years, movies and books have arrived that reveal everything about his life, both the best and the worst, and the interest aroused by his figure has not diminished one iota. Quite the contrary, every day new people join the interest in learning more about his life and work.
Personally, I prefer the biography written by Walter Isaacson, who interviewed Steve Jobs on dozens of occasions during his last two years of life, and who also had testimonials from people close to him (family, friends, rivals, etc.). It is the closest thing to an official biography, although with the solvency and reliability that Isaacson has shown in all of his work, and that therefore completes the portrait based on light and shadow. If you’re interested in the Jobs story and haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend it. You can find it in multiple formats on Amazon, in some of them for less than 10 euros.
Now, when talking about personalities like Jobs, it is common for new data, documents and other things to appear years after their departure, and it is always interesting to have access to them, since they expand the knowledge that we can have about the person we are talking to. portray. That is why I think it is great news that, as reported on their website, the Steve Jobs Archive is going to publish Make Something Wonderful, a free e-book which will include speeches, interviews and correspondence from Jobs.
Not much is revealed about the book’s content, but in its announcement we can read that “Within the pages of this book, Steve shares his perspective on his childhood, launching and leaving Apple, his time with Pixar and NeXT, and his latest return to the company that started it all.«. And it is that being edited by the Steve Jobs Archive, and not by Apple, it can address both the best and the worst moments of his time at technology, as well as his intermediate journey (between his departure and his return).
Mythomania tends to remember the good and forget the bad of the remembered characters, and I have no doubt that the portrait of Steve Jobs that will emerge from the reading of Make Something Wonderful will tend towards benevolence in the memory (something absolutely understandable, on the other hand). part). Still, waiting to be able to read it when it is published, next April 11and despite the fact that much of the material it will include is already published in the archive, I am convinced that it will give us an even broader perspective of a true visionary.
It is possible, by the way, that you are wondering about the origin of the name. Well, it comes out of an internal presentation of Steve Jobs at Apple, in which he said the following: «One of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there«. I think so, but I would like to know your opinion, do you think he succeeded?
