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Steve Jobs: Was the Cruelty Really Necessary?
Steve Jobs is usually read as the story of how an extraordinary personality produced extraordinary products. Walter Isaacson gives us the adoption, the Macintosh, Jobs’s exile from Apple, NeXT, Pixar, his return, the iPhone and the final years of illness — while repeatedly linking his perfectionism, intensity and famous refusal to accept ordinary constraints to the things he was able to build.That connection is what makes the biography so compelling. It is also what makes its central implication difficult to accept. Jobs could inspire people to accomplish things they thought impossible, but…
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