Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson pdf

沃尔特·艾萨克森 1952 年 5 月 20 日出生于美国路易斯安那州新奥尔良。从新奥尔良伊西多尔纽曼学校毕业后，作为特柳赖德协会深泉学院暑期课程 (TASP) 的参与者，艾萨克森在哈佛大学接受教育，并于 1974 年获得历史和文学文学学士学位。在哈佛学习期间，他曾担任邮票协会会长、哈佛讽刺协会成员和洛厄尔学院的居民。之后，他以罗德奖学金进入牛津大学彭布罗克罗德学院，开始阅读哲学、政治和经济学。沃尔特·艾萨克森在伦敦的《星期日泰晤士报》开始了他的新闻职业生涯，然后在新奥尔良出版的《泰晤士报-Picayune/States-Item》工作。他于1978年加入《时代》杂志，担任国家事务和新媒体的政治通讯编辑1996年成为该杂志第十四任总编辑之前。他于 2001 年担任 CNN 的董事会和执行管理层主席，然后于 2003 年成为阿斯彭研究所的总裁兼首席执行官。他撰写了多本书籍和自传，包括《美国素描》（2009 年）、《爱因斯坦：他的生活与宇宙》（2007 年） )、本杰明·富兰克林：美国生活 (2003)。和基辛格：传记 (1992)，并与埃文·托马斯合着了《智者：六个朋友和他们创造的世界》(1986)。沃尔特·艾萨克森的伟大之处在于他对领导人物的特征进行了编辑。 2011 年 10 月 24 日，艾萨克森被授权出版苹果联合创始人史蒂夫乔布斯的传记，由 Simon & Schuster Publishing 出版。这本书成为世界畅销书，打破了所有自传体书籍的销售记录。这本书基于史蒂夫乔布斯在他去世前两年的时间里对他的四十多次采访。艾萨克森还回忆了乔布斯与他工作领域的朋友、家人和竞争对手的对话，他们都同意他的愿景彻底改变了计算机、音乐、电话、动画电影和出版领域。他还是非营利组织美国教育的董事会主席，联合航空公司、杜兰大学的董事会成员，以及哈佛大学、彭博家庭基金会和美国历史学家协会的主管。 2012年，他被《时代》杂志选为全球100位最具影响力人物之一。

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson pdf 沃尔特·艾萨克森

How This Book Came to Be In the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured on CNN, places where I’d worked. But now that I was no longer at either of those places, I hadn’t heard from him much. We talked a bit about the Aspen Institute, which I had recently joined, and I invited him to speak at our summer campus in Colorado. He’d be happy to come, he said, but not to be onstage. He wanted instead to take a walk so that we could talk. That seemed a bit odd. I didn’t yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out that he wanted me to write a biography of him. I had recently published one on Benjamin Franklin and was writing one about Albert Einstein, and my initial reaction was to wonder, half jokingly, whether he saw himself as the natural successor in that sequence. Because I assumed that he was still in the middle of an oscillating career that had many more ups and downs left, I demurred. Not now, I said. Maybe in a decade or two, when you retire.