In 2010, Steve wrote himself an email outlining his driving motivation. In fact, he had been turning to a set of core ideas for decades.
Steve Jobs
"FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values"--
The Hero Returns: Steve Jobs’ real genius
As the three-year anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing approaches in October, complete lessons from his life and legacy are still far from…
50 Ideas That Changed My Life - David Perell
David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.
Make Your Own Thing - AT Protocol
John Gruber has been writing Daring Fireball for nearly a quarter of a century, analyzing and cataloging a distinct array of internet ephemera, designer nerdery, and, of course, the meteoric rise of Apple. He joins Jim to talk about what the pre-platform internet felt like, the oppressive sameness of contemporary web publishing, the creation of Markdown, and covering Apple for half of the company’s life.
The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know
I’m a huge Steve Yegge fan, so It was a great honor to have Steve Yegge on a recent Stack Overflow podcast. One thing I couldn’t have predicted, however, was one particular theme of Steve’s experience at Google and Amazon that kept coming up time and time
“Something I will be most proud of when I’m 90”: How Jeff Bezos used to talk about The Washington Post, and what’s changed
Jeff Bezos used to talk about The Washington Post with real curiosity, and the things he said were interesting and specific. Over time, that changed.
The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge
Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome. Loops and graphs, Wheelhouse and Beads, the end of human code review, the Land Rush that replaces CI/CD, and the Wish Factory — a field report from 12 months in the future.
Two Types of Assemblages
Recovering from an exhausting yet highly productive and exciting trip to Georgia Tech, I was excited to see that Alex Reid has a VERY INTERESTING post up on object-oriented rhetoric. In his discuss…
Rethinking how technology uses our personal data
This essay explores visually how keeping data and AI on‑device could empower not only users, but also companies.
Things that make us smart
Keep the news in the Wayback Machine. Sign Fight for the Future's letter.
Alexander Obenauer
Exploring new and renewed ideas for how personal computing and the interfaces we think with can better serve people’s lives – expanding opportunity, agency, curiosity, and creativity.
I learned a lot from @calabro.io's write-up of the recent Bluesky outage. So much that I was inspired to write my own post about his post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/04/12/thoughts-on-the-bl…
Thoughts on the Bluesky public incident write-up
surfingcomplexity.blogI wrote a custom Bluesky feed! It's a classifier trained my past likes. As a bonus, I got to learn more about recommender systems ("RecSys"). adamwiggins.com/posts/a-bluesky-feed-for-one/
A Bluesky feed for one · Adam Wiggins
adamwiggins.com
