Steve jobs biography cliff notes

1-Sentence-Summary: Steve Jobs is the most detailed and accurate account of the life of the man who created Apple, the most valuable technology company in the world.

Read in: 4 minutes

Favorite quote from the author:

My mum gave me Steve Jobs for St.

Nicholas Day in 2011, shortly after it had been released (3 weeks after his death). It’s a massive read, but a fascinating one.

Written by Walter Isaacson, former CEO of CNN and managing editor of Time Magazine, it is not only the most detailed and accurate book about Steve Job’s life, but also the only authorized one, since he wrote the book with Steve’s consent.

Isaacson conducted over 40 interviews with Steve Jobs over the last 2 years leading up to his death.

Here are 3 interesting things I learned from the summary, which you probably won’t find elsewhere:

1. Steve Jobs’s team invented a name for his most important skill, the reality distortion fi