He October 5, 2011 the already expected but still shocking news came, Steve Jobs had just died. Less than two months have passed since he resigned as CEO of Apple, the position passed to Tim Cook, but his absence at the launch of the iPhone 4S (which many, due to the circumstances, called the iPhone 4 (for) Steve ) on October 4, along with the leaked the photos showing him extremely thin and needing help to walk showed the worst.

If until then the figure of Steve Jobs was essential when talking about the golden age of computing and electronic technology, his death was the final step, the one that led him to become a myth, who more than ten years later fully retains his aura of genius, visionary and revolutionary. In these years, films and books have come out that reveal everything about his life, the best and the worst, and the interest that his character arouses has not diminished one bit. On the contrary, every day new people join the interest to learn more about his life and work.

Personally, I prefer the biography written by Walter Isaacson, who interviewed Steve Jobs on dozens of occasions during the last two years of his life, and who also had statements from people close to him (family, friends, rivals, etc.). It is the closest to an official biography, albeit with the solvency and reliability that Isaacson has shown in all his works, thus completing a portrait based on light and shadow. If you are interested in the story of Jobs and haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend it. You can find it on Amazon in multiple formats, some for less than 10 euros.

Now, when we’re talking about figures like Jobs, it’s common for new data, documents, and other things to surface years after they’re gone, and it’s always interesting to have access to them because they add to the knowledge we can have about the person. we speak with. portray. So I think it’s great news that, as stated on their website, The Steve Jobs Archive is about to release Make Something Wonderful, a free e-book which will include speeches, interviews and correspondence from Jobs.

Not much has been revealed about the book’s content, but its announcement reads that “In the pages of this book, Steve shares his perspective on his childhood, founding and leaving Apple, his time with Pixar and NeXT, and his latest return to the company that started it all.«. And the fact that it’s published by the Steve Jobs Archive, and not Apple, can address the best and worst moments of his time in tech, as well as his transition (between his departure and return).

Mythomania tends to remember the good and forget the bad of remembered characters, and I have no doubt that the portrait of Steve Jobs that will emerge from reading Make Something Wonderful will tend to benevolent in the memory (something perfectly understandable, second hand). part). Still, I can’t wait to read it when it’s published, next April 11and although much of the material it will contain is already published in the archive, I am confident that it will give us an even wider view of a true visionary.

By the way, you may be interested in the origin of the name. This follows from an internal presentation by Steve Jobs at Apple, in which he said the following: «One of the ways I believe people express their appreciation for the rest of humanity is to create something amazing and put it out there«. I think so, but I’d like to know your opinion, do you think he succeeded?