Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Steve Jobs changed the world of personal computing as a college dropout who wasn't a programmer, designer, engineer, or nice person. His biography is a fascinating look into the life of man who did acid and then created the most successful tech company in history. There is so much we can learn from someone with laser focus who pushed (pretty aggressively...) to create products at the intersection of art and technology. Also, Kellen talks about his confusing experience with the first iPhone; a...

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Do you have goals to be more creative or to be a douche? Today's book is Steve Jobs
0:05.2	by Walter Isaacson, the perfect book for any aspiring innovator. I'm Kellan Erskine. I'm a comic,
0:10.9	a father. And one time when I couldn't pay my phone bill in my early 20s, I went to the Apple
0:16.3	store every day for two weeks to check my email. And I've been a fan ever since. And I'm David Vance.
0:21.9	I don't have stories about paying my phone bill in my early 20s because I wasn't born during
0:26.7	the Great Depression. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson gives tips on creativity from the life of the
0:32.2	famous entrepreneur. Now, some have said we're just trying to promote our podcast by sucking up
0:36.9	to Apple,
0:42.9	whose MacBook Pro now comes with an immersive retina display, longer battery life, and up to 64 gigabytes of memory.
0:44.2	Who knew a common computer could be so uncommon?
0:47.1	And this is the book pile.
0:49.6	Can I read a couple of fun reviews from this last week?
0:52.6	Please do.
0:53.3	I don't need your permission, Dave.
0:56.3	Who were you asking?
0:57.7	So this one says, I love the subject line.
1:01.3	It's awesome, awesome, awesome.
1:03.5	This is a great podcast, a great mix of informative and humorous.
1:07.9	And this is Ball Is Life 88889. J.P. Amazing says, among other things,
1:14.7	as an aspiring writer, anything I can learn about books and writing them is a godsend. I'm only on
1:20.4	episode two, but I'm loving the bookpile so much. Thank you guys so much. And thank you, JP Amazing amazing. I would love it if he left like a follow-up
1:31.4	review that was like, all right, I heard the JFK jokes on episode three and I'm out. So thank you for
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