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The Tao of Jobs
Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford commencement is a meditation on life, love, business and death.
In barely 15 minutes of talking he covers it all. Steve Jobs is a storyteller. He weaves the threads of his life into the fabric of the universe. Anyone who is trying to figure out their path in life could read this speech and realize you are already on it and you always have been.
I was never really a huge Apple fanatic but have had their products in my home since 1984. They have been a backdrop to my life that I never really thought about. Steve Jobs meant little to me. The only details I could tell you about his life was that he was a mad genius who ate fruit all the time. Sounds like an extremist. And not very interesting to me. Until this year.
A very close friend insisted I read the Jobs biography. His recommendation was incredibly strong. This book changed my life and I hope it changes yours. Ok, ok, but isn’t it like 900 pages? On Steve Jobs?
I finished it in 2 weeks. I literally could not put it down. The story of his life was intense and compelling. The biographer, Walter Isaacson was given unfettered access to Jobs’ life, family, business associates and friends. The nature of telling the story of your own life is so colored by our own perceptions of events. Having the perspective of…
