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- # Ruby Wrapper for the Readmill API
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+ ## Ruby Wrapper for the Readmill API
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+
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+ ### Quick Start
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+
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+ Install via RubyGems
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+
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+ gem install readmill
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+
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+ Or, add it to your Gemfile
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+
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+ gem 'readmill'
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+
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+ ### Making Requests against the API
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+
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+ Readmill.configure do |c|
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+ c.client_id = 'your_client_id_here'
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+ end
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+
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+ client = Readmill::Client.new # Shortcut with Readmill.new
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+ client.readings # Returns the 20 most readings
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+
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+ ### API Parameters
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+
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+ Most endpoints in the [Readmill API](http://developers.readmill.com/api/docs/v2/) take similar parameters (`count`, `offset`, etc). These are passed into the client requests as an options hash. For example:
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+
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+ client.readings(count: 50, offset: 100) # Get 50 readings offset by 100
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+
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+ ### What is Readmill?
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+
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+ > Readmill is a beautiful ebook reader for iOS and Android that lets you read and share great books.
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+
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+ You can view their API docs [here.](http://developers.readmill.com/api/docs/v2/)
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+
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+ ### TODO
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+
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+ - Wrap the Search endpoints
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+ - Wrap authenticated (OAuth) endpoints
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+
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+ ### Copyright
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+
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+ Copyright (c) 2013 Andrew Thorp. See [LICENSE][] for details.
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+
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+ [license]: LICENSE.md
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+
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  require 'readmill/client/locations'
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  require 'readmill/client/periods'
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  require 'readmill/client/readings'
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+ require 'readmill/client/search'
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  require 'readmill/client/users'
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  module Readmill
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  include Readmill::Client::Locations
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  include Readmill::Client::Periods
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  include Readmill::Client::Readings
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+ include Readmill::Client::Search
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  include Readmill::Client::Users
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  end
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+ module Readmill
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+ class Client
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+
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+ # Public: This module will bring all of the methods from the search section
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+ # of the API.
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+ module Search
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+
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+ # Public: Search the readmill API for books, highlights, etc.
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+ #
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+ # query - A String to search the API for.
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+ # opts - A Hash of options used to modify the results. All of the values
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+ # of this Hash will be forwarded to the API as parameters
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+ # (default: {}).
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+ #
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+ # Returns a Hashie::Mash.
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+ def search(query, opts={})
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+ ensure_valid_search_options(opts)
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+
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+ opts[:query] = query
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+ if opts.delete(:books)
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+ url = 'books/search'
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+ elsif opts.delete(:highlights)
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+ url = 'highlights/search'
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+ elsif opts.delete(:users)
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+ url = 'users/search'
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+ else
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+ url = 'search'
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+ end
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+
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+ get(url, opts).items
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+ end
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+
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+ protected
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+
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+ # Internal: This method will raise an error if any two of books,
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+ # highlights, or users is true.
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+ #
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+ # Raises ArgumentError.
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+ # Returns nothing.
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+ def ensure_valid_search_options(opts)
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+ if opts.values_at(:books, :highlights, :users).grep(true).size > 1
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+ raise ArgumentError,
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+ 'You can only set one of books, highlights, and users.'
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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  module Readmill
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  # Public: The version of the Readmill gem.
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- VERSION = '0.1.0'.freeze
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+ VERSION = '0.2.0'.freeze
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  end
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+ hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter
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+ Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly
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+ and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated
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+ a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when
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+ societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs
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+ stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew
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+ were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. \r\n\r\nAlthough Jobs
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+ cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor
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+ even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits.
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+ He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly,
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+ sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against.
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+ His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions,
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+ perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that
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+ shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
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+ \r\n\r\nDriven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair.
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+ But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple''s hardware
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+ and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is
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+ instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character,
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+ Jobs - A Biografia","author":"Isaacson, Walter","identifier":"0748131329","story":"From
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+ bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder
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+ Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary
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+ account of Jobs'' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of
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+ exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as
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+ well as extensive interviews with Jobs'' family members, key colleagues from
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+ Apple and its competitors, Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography is the definitive
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+ portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.","published_at":"2011-10-24","language":"en","permalink":"steve-jobs-a-biografia","permalink_url":"https://readmill.com/books/steve-jobs-a-biografia","cover_url":"https://d26cmntuippvfl.cloudfront.net/?action=shrink-w&format=png&origin=https%253A%252F%252Freadmill-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fcovers%252Fef0a0a718bb89399b1aead55c65c1d4b43dd4100-original.png&width=120","cover_metadata":{"original_width":128,"original_height":198},"assets":{"items":[]},"readings_count":25,"recommended_readings_count":0,"active_and_finished_readings_count":17,"average_duration":35625,"featured":false,"price_segment":null}},{"book":{"id":18731,"title":"Presentation
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+ Secrets of Steve Jobs","author":"Gallo, Carmine","identifier":"9780071636759","story":"Former
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+ Apple CEO Steve Jobs\u2019s wildly popular presentations have set a new global
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+ gold standard\u2014and now this step-by-step guide shows you exactly how to
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+ use his crowd-pleasing techniques in your own presentations.The Presentation
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+ Secrets of Steve Jobs is as close as you''ll ever get to having the master
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+ presenter himself speak directly in your ear. Communications expert Carmine
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+ Gallo has studied and analyzed the very best of Jobs''s performances, offering
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+ point-by-point examples, tried-and-true techniques, and proven presentation
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+ secrets in 18 \"scenes,\" including:Develop a messianic sense of purpose Reveal
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+ the Conquering hero Channel your inner Zen Stage your presentation with props
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+ Make it look effortlessWith this revolutionary approach, you\u2019ll be surprised
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+ at how easy it is to sell your ideas, share your enthusiasm, and wow your
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+ audience the Steve Jobs way.","published_at":null,"language":null,"permalink":"presentation-secrets-of-steve-jobs","permalink_url":"https://readmill.com/books/presentation-secrets-of-steve-jobs","cover_url":"https://d26cmntuippvfl.cloudfront.net/?action=shrink-w&format=png&origin=https%253A%252F%252Freadmill-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fcovers%252F639a31a7a4b43af49f17f12bbeb08a9589f812f1-original.png&width=120","cover_metadata":{"original_width":943,"original_height":1600},"assets":{"items":[]},"readings_count":31,"recommended_readings_count":1,"active_and_finished_readings_count":13,"average_duration":16500,"featured":false,"price_segment":null}},{"book":{"id":188513,"title":"Sample
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+ of Steve Jobs","author":"Walter Isaacson","identifier":"9781451648553","story":"Based
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+ on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years\u2014as well
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+ as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries,
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+ competitors, and colleagues\u2014Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story
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+ of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative
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+ entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized
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+ six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet
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+ computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways
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+ to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness
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+ twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a
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+ company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats
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+ of engineering.\u00a0\u00a0 Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked
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+ for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before
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+ it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew
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+ to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about
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+ the people he worked with and competed against.\u00a0His friends, foes, and
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+ colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions,
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+ artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to
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+ business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs
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+ could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and
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+ products were interrelated, just as Apple\u2019s hardware and software tended
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+ to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary,
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+ filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.Amazon.com
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+ ReviewAmazon Best Books of the\u00a0Month, November 2011: It is difficult
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+ to read the opening pages of Walter Isaacson\u2019s Steve Jobs without feeling
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+ melancholic. Jobs retired at the end of August and died about six weeks later.
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+ Now, just weeks after his death, you can open the book that bears his name
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+ and read about his youth, his promise, and his relentless press to succeed.
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+ But the initial sadness in starting the book is soon replaced by something
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+ else, which is the intensity of the read--mirroring the intensity of Jobs\u2019s
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+ focus and vision for his products. Few in history have transformed their time
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+ like Steve Jobs, and one could argue that he stands with the Fords, Edisons,
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+ and Gutenbergs of the world. This is a timely and complete portrait that pulls
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+ no punches and gives insight into a man whose contradictions were in many
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+ ways his greatest strength. --Chris Schluep Amazon Exclusive: A Q&A with
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+ Walter Isaacson Q: It''s becoming well known that Jobs was able to create
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+ his Reality Distortion Field when it served him. Was it difficult for you
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+ to cut through the RDF and get beneath the narrative that he created? How
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+ did you do it? Isaacson: Andy Hertzfeld, who worked with Steve on the original
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+ Macintosh team, said that even if you were aware of his Reality Distortion
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+ Field, you still got caught up in it. But that is why Steve was so successful:
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+ He willfully bent reality so that you became convinced you could do the impossible,
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+ so you did. I never felt he was intentionally misleading me, but I did try
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+ to check every story. I did more than a hundred interviews. And he urged me
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+ not just to hear his version, but to interview as many people as possible.
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+ It was one of his many odd contradictions: He could distort reality, yet he
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+ was also brutally honest most of the time. He impressed upon me the value
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+ of honesty, rather than trying to whitewash things.Q: How were the interviews
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+ with Jobs conducted? Did you ask lots of questions, or did he just talk? Isaacson:
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+ I asked very few questions. We would take long walks or drives, or sit in
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+ his garden, and I would raise a topic and let him expound on it. Even during
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+ the more formal sessions in his living room, I would just sit quietly and
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+ listen. He loved to tell stories, and he would get very emotional, especially
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+ when talking about people in his life whom he admired or disdained.Q: He was
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+ a powerful man who could hold a grudge. Was it easy to get others to talk
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+ about Jobs willingly? Were they afraid to talk? Isaacson: Everyone was eager
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+ to talk about Steve. They all had stories to tell, and they loved to tell
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+ them. Even those who told me about his rough manner put it in the context
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+ of how inspiring he could be.Q: Jobs embraced the counterculture and Buddhism.
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+ Yet he was a billionaire businessman with his own jet. In what way did Jobs''
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+ contradictions contribute to his success?Isaacson: Steve was filled with contradictions.
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+ He was a counterculture rebel who became a billionaire. He eschewed material
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+ objects yet made objects of desire. He talked, at times, about how he wrestled
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+ with these contradictions. His counterculture background combined with his
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+ love of electronics and business was key to the products he created. They
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+ combined artistry and technology. Q: Jobs could be notoriously difficult.
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+ Did you wind up liking him in the end? Isaacson: Yes, I liked him and was
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+ inspired by him. But I knew he could be unkind and rough. These things can
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+ go together. When my book first came out, some people skimmed it quickly and
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+ cherry-picked the examples of his being rude to people. But that was only
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+ half the story. Fortunately, as people read the whole book, they saw the theme
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+ of the narrative: He could be petulant and rough, but this was driven by his
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+ passion and pursuit of perfection. He liked people to stand up to him, and
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+ he said that brutal honesty was required to be part of his team. And the teams
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+ he built became extremely loyal and inspired. Q: Do you believe he was a genius?
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+ Isaacson: He was a genius at connecting art to technology, of making leaps
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+ based on intuition and imagination. He knew how to make emotional connections
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+ with those around him and with his customers.Q: Did he have regrets? Isaacson:
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+ He had some regrets, which he expressed in his interviews. For example, he
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+ said that he did not handle well the pregnancy of his first girlfriend. But
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+ he was deeply satisfied by the creativity he ingrained at Apple and the loyalty
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+ of both his close colleagues and his family.Q: What do you think is his legacy?Isaacson:
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+ His legacy is transforming seven industries: personal computers, animated
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+ movies, music, phones, tablet computing, digital publishing, and retail stores.
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+ His legacy is creating what became the most valuable company on earth, one
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+ that stood at the intersection of the humanities and technology, and is the
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+ company most likely still to be doing that a generation from now. His legacy,
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+ as he said in his \"Think Different\" ad, was reminding us that the people
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+ who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.Photo
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+ credit: Patrice Gilbert PhotographyAbout the AuthorWalter Isaacson, the CEO
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+ of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of
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+ Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin
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+ Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of
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+ The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington,
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+ D.C., with his wife and daughter.","published_at":null,"language":null,"permalink":"sample-of-steve-jobs","permalink_url":"https://readmill.com/books/sample-of-steve-jobs","cover_url":"https://d26cmntuippvfl.cloudfront.net/?action=shrink-w&format=png&origin=https%253A%252F%252Freadmill-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fcovers%252F910334f483f42d20a96e614cdeaefcfd50b3e2ae-original.png&width=120","cover_metadata":{"original_width":725,"original_height":1100},"assets":{"items":[]},"readings_count":19,"recommended_readings_count":0,"active_and_finished_readings_count":13,"average_duration":null,"featured":false,"price_segment":null}},{"book":{"id":603,"title":"The
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+ Steve Jobs Way","author":"Simon, William L., Elliot, Jay","identifier":"9781593156640","story":"In
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+ iLeadership, Jay Elliot gives the reader the opportunity of seeing Steve Jobs
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+ as only his closest associates have ever seen him, and to learn what has made
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+ him--and the mystique of his management style--capable of creating tools so
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+ extraordinary that they have remade three industries and have transformed
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+ the way we create, consume, and communicate with each other. Jay Elliot worked
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+ side by side with Steve as Senior Vice President of Apple and brings us his
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+ deep insider perspective of Steve''s singular iLeadership style--which encompasses
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+ four major principles: product, talent, organization, marketing. Jay shares
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+ the lessons that come out of Steve''s intuitive approach to show how the creative
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+ and technological brilliance of iLeadership can be utilized to drive breakthroughs
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+ in any organization, irrespective of size.","published_at":"2011-03-08","language":"en","permalink":"the-steve-jobs-way","permalink_url":"https://readmill.com/books/the-steve-jobs-way","cover_url":"https://d26cmntuippvfl.cloudfront.net/?action=shrink-w&format=png&origin=https%253A%252F%252Freadmill-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fcovers%252Ff0eedd0c69aaae574e31e494b324f5186cebe7fd-original.png&width=120","cover_metadata":{"original_width":128,"original_height":197},"assets":{"items":[]},"readings_count":10,"recommended_readings_count":0,"active_and_finished_readings_count":6,"average_duration":7050,"featured":false,"price_segment":null}},{"book":{"id":11461,"title":"The
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+ Zen of Steve Jobs","author":"Forbes LLC, Caleb Melby, JESS3","identifier":"9781118295304","story":"An
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+ illustrated depiction of Steve Jobs'' friendship with Zen Buddhist Kobun Chino
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+ Otogawa and the impact it had on Jobs'' careerApple cofounder Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
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+ had such an enormous impact on so many people that his life often took on
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+ aspects of myth. But much of his success was due to collaboration with designers,
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+ engineers and thinkers. The Zen of Steve Jobs tells the story of Jobs'' relationship
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+ with one such person: Kobun Chino Otogawa.Kobun was a Zen Buddhist priest
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+ who emigrated to the U.S. from Japan in the early 1970s. He was an innovator,
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+ lacked appreciation for rules and was passionate about art and design. Kobun
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+ was to Buddhism as Jobs was to the computer business: a renegade and maverick.
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+ It wasn''t long before the two became friends--a relationship that was not
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+ built to last.This graphic book is a reimagining of that friendship. The story...The
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+ EPUB format of this title may not be compatible for use on all handheld devices.","published_at":null,"language":null,"permalink":"the-zen-of-steve-jobs","permalink_url":"https://readmill.com/books/the-zen-of-steve-jobs","cover_url":"https://d26cmntuippvfl.cloudfront.net/?action=shrink-w&format=png&origin=https%253A%252F%252Freadmill-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fcovers%252Fc01a4149a118db33772756f956aa862d948504d1-original.png&width=120","cover_metadata":{"original_width":300,"original_height":300},"assets":{"items":[]},"readings_count":8,"recommended_readings_count":1,"active_and_finished_readings_count":6,"average_duration":0,"featured":false,"price_segment":null}},{"book":{"id":27685,"title":"The
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+ Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs","author":"Carmine Gallo","identifier":"0071748741","story":"Product
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+ DescriptionIn The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, bestselling author Carmine
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+ Gallo reveals the qualities that make the Apple co-founder the most innovative
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+ leader in business today. Each principle is backed with research, quotes,
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+ and first-person interviews with experts and business leaders, as well as
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+ specific ideas for applying those principles to every business, large or small.","published_at":null,"language":null,"permalink":"the-innovation-secrets-of-steve-jobs","permalink_url":"https://readmill.com/books/the-innovation-secrets-of-steve-jobs","cover_url":"https://d26cmntuippvfl.cloudfront.net/?action=shrink-w&format=png&origin=https%253A%252F%252Freadmill-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fcovers%252F4b2a205dc3835e2ba293b84553a68e43348a553a-original.png&width=120","cover_metadata":{"original_width":1091,"original_height":1600},"assets":{"items":[]},"readings_count":7,"recommended_readings_count":0,"active_and_finished_readings_count":6,"average_duration":null,"featured":false,"price_segment":null}},{"book":{"id":1985,"title":"The
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+ Second Coming of Steve Jobs","author":"Deutschman, Alan","identifier":"0767904338","story":"When
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+ Steve Jobs became the acting CEO of Apple Computers, it was hemorrhaging more
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+ than a billion dollars a year. His return after twelve years of exile to the
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+ company he cofounded completely revitalized Apple. Based on interviews with
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+ scores of people--rivals, colleagues, friends--who have worked with Jobs over
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+ the years, \"The Second Coming of Steve Jobs\" presents the most revealing
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+ his garden, and I would raise a topic and let him expound on it. Even during
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+ the more formal sessions in his living room, I would just sit quietly and
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+ listen. He loved to tell stories, and he would get very emotional, especially
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+ when talking about people in his life whom he admired or disdained.Q: He was
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+ a powerful man who could hold a grudge. Was it easy to get others to talk
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+ about Jobs willingly? Were they afraid to talk? Isaacson: Everyone was eager
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+ to talk about Steve. They all had stories to tell, and they loved to tell
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+ them. Even those who told me about his rough manner put it in the context
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+ of how inspiring he could be.Q: Jobs embraced the counterculture and Buddhism.
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+ Yet he was a billionaire businessman with his own jet. In what way did Jobs''
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+ contradictions contribute to his success?Isaacson: Steve was filled with contradictions.
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+ He was a counterculture rebel who became a billionaire. He eschewed material
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+ objects yet made objects of desire. He talked, at times, about how he wrestled
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+ with these contradictions. His counterculture background combined with his
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+ love of electronics and business was key to the products he created. They
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+ combined artistry and technology. Q: Jobs could be notoriously difficult.
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+ Did you wind up liking him in the end? Isaacson: Yes, I liked him and was
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+ inspired by him. But I knew he could be unkind and rough. These things can
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+ go together. When my book first came out, some people skimmed it quickly and
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+ cherry-picked the examples of his being rude to people. But that was only
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+ half the story. Fortunately, as people read the whole book, they saw the theme
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+ of the narrative: He could be petulant and rough, but this was driven by his
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+ passion and pursuit of perfection. He liked people to stand up to him, and
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+ he said that brutal honesty was required to be part of his team. And the teams
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+ he built became extremely loyal and inspired. Q: Do you believe he was a genius?
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+ Isaacson: He was a genius at connecting art to technology, of making leaps
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+ based on intuition and imagination. He knew how to make emotional connections
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+ with those around him and with his customers.Q: Did he have regrets? Isaacson:
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+ He had some regrets, which he expressed in his interviews. For example, he
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+ said that he did not handle well the pregnancy of his first girlfriend. But
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+ he was deeply satisfied by the creativity he ingrained at Apple and the loyalty
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+ of both his close colleagues and his family.Q: What do you think is his legacy?Isaacson:
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+ His legacy is transforming seven industries: personal computers, animated
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+ movies, music, phones, tablet computing, digital publishing, and retail stores.
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+ His legacy is creating what became the most valuable company on earth, one
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+ that stood at the intersection of the humanities and technology, and is the
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+ company most likely still to be doing that a generation from now. His legacy,
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+ as he said in his \"Think Different\" ad, was reminding us that the people
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+ who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.Photo
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+ credit: Patrice Gilbert PhotographyAbout the AuthorWalter Isaacson, the CEO
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+ of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of
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+ Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin
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+ Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of
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+ The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington,
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+ D.C., with his wife and daughter.","published_at":null,"language":null,"permalink":"sample-of-steve-jobs","permalink_url":"https://readmill.com/books/sample-of-steve-jobs","cover_url":"https://d26cmntuippvfl.cloudfront.net/?action=shrink-w&format=png&origin=https%253A%252F%252Freadmill-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fcovers%252F910334f483f42d20a96e614cdeaefcfd50b3e2ae-original.png&width=120","cover_metadata":{"original_width":725,"original_height":1100},"assets":{"items":[]},"readings_count":19,"recommended_readings_count":0,"active_and_finished_readings_count":13,"average_duration":null,"featured":false,"price_segment":null}},{"book":{"id":603,"title":"The
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+ Steve Jobs Way","author":"Simon, William L., Elliot, Jay","identifier":"9781593156640","story":"In
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+ iLeadership, Jay Elliot gives the reader the opportunity of seeing Steve Jobs
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+ as only his closest associates have ever seen him, and to learn what has made
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+ him--and the mystique of his management style--capable of creating tools so
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+ extraordinary that they have remade three industries and have transformed
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+ the way we create, consume, and communicate with each other. Jay Elliot worked
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+ side by side with Steve as Senior Vice President of Apple and brings us his
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+ deep insider perspective of Steve''s singular iLeadership style--which encompasses
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+ four major principles: product, talent, organization, marketing. Jay shares
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+ the lessons that come out of Steve''s intuitive approach to show how the creative
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+ and technological brilliance of iLeadership can be utilized to drive breakthroughs
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+ in any organization, irrespective of size.","published_at":"2011-03-08","language":"en","permalink":"the-steve-jobs-way","permalink_url":"https://readmill.com/books/the-steve-jobs-way","cover_url":"https://d26cmntuippvfl.cloudfront.net/?action=shrink-w&format=png&origin=https%253A%252F%252Freadmill-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fcovers%252Ff0eedd0c69aaae574e31e494b324f5186cebe7fd-original.png&width=120","cover_metadata":{"original_width":128,"original_height":197},"assets":{"items":[]},"readings_count":10,"recommended_readings_count":0,"active_and_finished_readings_count":6,"average_duration":7050,"featured":false,"price_segment":null}},{"book":{"id":11461,"title":"The
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+ Zen of Steve Jobs","author":"Forbes LLC, Caleb Melby, JESS3","identifier":"9781118295304","story":"An
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+ illustrated depiction of Steve Jobs'' friendship with Zen Buddhist Kobun Chino
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+ Otogawa and the impact it had on Jobs'' careerApple cofounder Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
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+ had such an enormous impact on so many people that his life often took on
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+ aspects of myth. But much of his success was due to collaboration with designers,
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+ engineers and thinkers. The Zen of Steve Jobs tells the story of Jobs'' relationship
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+ with one such person: Kobun Chino Otogawa.Kobun was a Zen Buddhist priest
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+ who emigrated to the U.S. from Japan in the early 1970s. He was an innovator,
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+ lacked appreciation for rules and was passionate about art and design. Kobun
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+ was to Buddhism as Jobs was to the computer business: a renegade and maverick.
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+ It wasn''t long before the two became friends--a relationship that was not
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+ built to last.This graphic book is a reimagining of that friendship. The story...The
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+ Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs","author":"Carmine Gallo","identifier":"0071748741","story":"Product
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+ DescriptionIn The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, bestselling author Carmine
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+ Gallo reveals the qualities that make the Apple co-founder the most innovative
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+ leader in business today. Each principle is backed with research, quotes,
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+ and first-person interviews with experts and business leaders, as well as
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+ specific ideas for applying those principles to every business, large or small.","published_at":null,"language":null,"permalink":"the-innovation-secrets-of-steve-jobs","permalink_url":"https://readmill.com/books/the-innovation-secrets-of-steve-jobs","cover_url":"https://d26cmntuippvfl.cloudfront.net/?action=shrink-w&format=png&origin=https%253A%252F%252Freadmill-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fcovers%252F4b2a205dc3835e2ba293b84553a68e43348a553a-original.png&width=120","cover_metadata":{"original_width":1091,"original_height":1600},"assets":{"items":[]},"readings_count":7,"recommended_readings_count":0,"active_and_finished_readings_count":6,"average_duration":null,"featured":false,"price_segment":null}},{"book":{"id":1985,"title":"The
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+ Second Coming of Steve Jobs","author":"Deutschman, Alan","identifier":"0767904338","story":"When
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+ Steve Jobs became the acting CEO of Apple Computers, it was hemorrhaging more
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+ than a billion dollars a year. His return after twelve years of exile to the
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+ company he cofounded completely revitalized Apple. Based on interviews with
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+ scores of people--rivals, colleagues, friends--who have worked with Jobs over
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+ the years, \"The Second Coming of Steve Jobs\" presents the most revealing
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+ portrait yet of this extraordinarily complex man.","published_at":"2001-09-11","language":"en","permalink":"the-second-coming-of-steve-jobs","permalink_url":"https://readmill.com/books/the-second-coming-of-steve-jobs","cover_url":"https://d26cmntuippvfl.cloudfront.net/?action=shrink-w&format=png&origin=https%253A%252F%252Freadmill-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fcovers%252F674f250429517b460fab78c2dab70d4ee2ef0e65-original.png&width=120","cover_metadata":{"original_width":128,"original_height":197},"assets":{"items":[]},"readings_count":6,"recommended_readings_count":0,"active_and_finished_readings_count":4,"average_duration":0,"featured":false,"price_segment":null}},{"book":{"id":11802,"title":"WIRED:
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+ Steve Jobs, Revolutionary","author":"Steven Levy","identifier":null,"story":null,"published_at":null,"language":null,"permalink":"wired-steve-jobs-revolutionary","permalink_url":"https://readmill.com/books/wired-steve-jobs-revolutionary","cover_url":"https://d26cmntuippvfl.cloudfront.net/?action=shrink-w&format=png&origin=https%253A%252F%252Freadmill-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fcovers%252F5fc51febcaa0474e585f899d1c4892da8bfdc228-original.png&width=120","cover_metadata":{"original_width":300,"original_height":400},"assets":{"items":[]},"readings_count":5,"recommended_readings_count":0,"active_and_finished_readings_count":4,"average_duration":0,"featured":false,"price_segment":null}},{"book":{"id":33490,"title":"Leading
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+ Apple With Steve Jobs","author":"Jay Elliot","identifier":"9781118431429","story":"A
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+ former Senior VP of Apple shares how Steve Jobs motivated people to do the
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+ best work of their livesJay Elliot was hired personally by Steve Jobs, just
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+ in time to accompany him on the last of his historic visits to Xerox''s Palo
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+ Alto Research Center, the visits that changed the course of computing. As
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+ Senior VP of Apple, Jay served as Steve''s right-hand man and trouble-shooter,
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+ overseeing all corporate operations and business planning, as well as software
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+ development and HR. In Leading Apple with Steve Jobs, Jay details how Steve
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+ managed and motivated his people--and what every manager can learn from Jobs
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+ about motivating people to do the best work of their lives.Steve Jobs used
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+ the phrase \"Pirates! Not the Navy\" as a rallying cry--a metaphor to \"Think
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+ Different.\" In the days of developing the Macintosh, it became a four-word
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+ Jobs: Die autorisierte Biografie des Apple-Gr\u00fcnders (German Edition)","author":"Walter
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+ to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple\u2019s Steve Jobs","author":"Mark
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+ Cabec\u0327a de Steve Jobs","author":"Leander Kahney","identifier":null,"story":null,"published_at":null,"language":null,"permalink":"a-cabeca-de-steve-jobs","permalink_url":"https://readmill.com/books/a-cabeca-de-steve-jobs","cover_url":"https://d26cmntuippvfl.cloudfront.net/?action=shrink-w&format=png&origin=https%253A%252F%252Freadmill-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fcovers%252Fe9f900281879b40526d413247a26a7a2bf49ecfb-original.png&width=120","cover_metadata":{"original_width":367,"original_height":520},"assets":{"items":[]},"readings_count":0,"recommended_readings_count":0,"active_and_finished_readings_count":0,"average_duration":null,"featured":false,"price_segment":null}},{"book":{"id":40161,"title":"El
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+ camino de Steve Jobs","author":"Jay Elliot","identifier":"9788403132061","story":"Jay
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+ Elliot, ex vicepresidente de Apple Computer y colega cercano de Steve Jobs,
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+ nos descubre el camino que ha marcado la apasionante carrera del cofundador
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+ de Apple. Desde su paticipaci\u00f3 en los productos que cambiaron las reglas
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+ del juego en las comunicaciones, Apple II y Macintosh, su terrible ca\u00edda
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+ del pedestal y su regreso triunfal a la cima de Apple, hasta su relaci\u00f3n
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+ con Pixar y el desarrollo del iPod, del iPhone y del iPad.El camino de Steve
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+ Jobs presenta las experiencias, los logros y los retos del hombre que transform\u00f3
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+ el mundo de las comunicaciones, y ofrece al lector la oportunidad de aplicar
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+ esta gran experiencia en su vida personal y profesional.Complementado con
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+ entrevistas exclusivas a las figuras m\u00e1s prominentes de la historia de
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+ Apple Computer, este libro brinda una imagen \u00edntima e in\u00e9dita del
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+ Steve Jobs que jam\u00e1s se cer\u00e1 en los medios ni sobre un escenario.
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+ El libro explora los principios empresariales del genio detr\u00e1s de Apple,
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+ sus acciones en el dise\u00f1o de producto y el desarrollo de marcas, los
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+ enfrentamientos en las salas de juntas y su mundo fuera de Silicon Valley.
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+ Los lectores conocer\u00e1n al verdadero Steve jobs, al ni\u00f1o prodigio
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+ que cambi\u00f3 para siempre la forma en que trabajamos, jugamos, consumimos
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+ y nos comunicamos. Todo a trav\u00e9s de la mirada de alguien que trabaj\u00f3
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+ a su lado durante muchos a\u00f1os.Escrito en colaboraci\u00f3n con William
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+ L. Simon, El camino de Steve jobs es el libro que milliones de lectores esperaban
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+ para seguir el ejemplode este visionario de las comunicaciones.","published_at":null,"language":null,"permalink":"el-camino-de-steve-jobs","permalink_url":"https://readmill.com/books/el-camino-de-steve-jobs","cover_url":"https://d26cmntuippvfl.cloudfront.net/?action=shrink-w&format=png&origin=https%253A%252F%252Freadmill-assets.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fcovers%252F35534145bfb995fb807426fdb2f20bd1c47bc086-original.png&width=120","cover_metadata":{"original_width":132,"original_height":216},"assets":{"items":[]},"readings_count":0,"recommended_readings_count":0,"active_and_finished_readings_count":0,"average_duration":null,"featured":false,"price_segment":null}},{"book":{"id":139789,"title":"Fac\u0327a
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