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Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer,” Jobs told Fortune shortly after retaking the reins at Apple.” But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself it successive outer layers.”There is a lot to admire, and a much to despise about him. He had a lifelong commitment to his worldview. I respect his fanatic attention to detail: he truly cared about every aspect of a product’s design, and always intimately contributed to what the company was working on. Steve Jobs + Jony Ive were a legendary combination for industrial design, and I hope Ive still does well without him.
It is hilarious to read about Steve personally calling up CEO’s of giant corporations to tell them that their product sucks, and sometimes to give ideas on how to improve it. Well written, exciting, and seems to do justice to the legacy of a crazy bastard who inarguably left a permanent mark on our culture.