Author- Karen Blumenthal
Publisher- BLOOMSBURY
Genre- BIOGRAPHY
Year- 2012
Length- 310 pages
Format- Paperback
Rating- 4.5/5 stars
"Your time is limited.. . . have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."-Steve Jobs
As he said, simple can be harder than complex because making things simple is the most complicated thing ever. This book takes us to a beautiful journey of an ordinary man with many extra factors.
The dots will connect. The journey is the reward. Don't settle for okay. Just do what's right. Steve Jobs carried on with his life by these sayings and urged everyone around him to do likewise. In this memoir creator Karen Blumenthal draws an obvious conclusion of his life for us, from his beginnings as an embraced child of Clara and Paul Jobs, to a talented however ornery third-grader who made a little blast underneath his teacher's seat, to a lost and troubled shoeless school dropout who worked for Atari yet smelled so horrible that they put him on the night shift.
How on the planet can a man like this proceed to make the first Apple PC at such a young age with his companion Steve Wozniak?
We come on Jobs' excursion as he attempts to offer the primary Apple PC to heading up a business. A business that had deals surpassing $7.9 million by 1978. We figure out how he was fired from the organization he established, how Steve endeavoured to establish another PC organization called NeXT (whose first PC cost $6500!), how he bought Pixar and made the
full-length PC energized film "Toy Story", and at last came back to Apple in 1996 when workstations they were incorporating burst with blazes in light of defective batteries.
Furthermore, later how he would move music from our personal computers into the palm of our hands. Our reality could never be the equivalent.
Steve Jobs' life is a rollercoaster ride, a progression of stops and starts and rocket-dispatches forward. This history catches every last bit of it. Furthermore, even though we know a great deal of what he's done, a significant part of the narratives despite everything came as a shock.
One incident from the book that sticks with me isn't one from him, yet one he gained from his father: "You are building a lovely wooden cupboard, yet do you attach an old bit of pressed wood on the back because nobody can see it"? No. You'll generally know there is an old bit of compressed wood on the back. "Never settle for okay".
Widely praised author Karen Blumenthal takes us to the centre of this entangled and incredible man while at the same time investigating the advancement of PCs. Surrounded by Jobs' moving Stanford commencement speech and shows all through with highly contrasting photographs about his journey in this book, this is the narrative of the man who changed our reality.
Karen Blumenthal is a widely praised creator of the story true to life for youngsters, who are intrigued by disputable subjects and social change. This book has an intriguing ability to play with your mindset for good and bring out the inner passion within yourself no matter how many times you fail. I feel delighted and emotionally moved by a few experiences of Steve Jobs, this book is for sure an authentic tribute to this legendry icon. I will recommend this book to everyone who wants to experience the journey of one of the most successful entrepreneur ever born. I want to give this book 4.5 stars out of 5 and want especially the young and aspiring generation to consider this book.
BY: Pranshu Sahay