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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

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Bought Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Biography on Feburary 14, 2012 to present it to my self through flipkart.com.

Today March 10, 2012 12.20 PM I had completed reading the book it contains 42 chapters spread over 571 pages

Reality Distortion Field: It can be done

Books That Inspired Steve Jobs​

  1. 'Autobiography of a Yogi' by Paramahansa Yogananda Jobs read and re-read many times during his life. Jobs had first read as a teenager," Isaacson writes, "then re-read in India and had read once a year ever since.

  2. 'Be Here Now' by Ram Dass

  3. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

  4. 'The Innovator's Dilemma' by Clayton Christensen

  5. 'The Whole Earth Catalog' periodicals

  6. Herman Melville's Moby Dick

  7. Shakespeare's King Lear

  8. Poems of Dylan Thomas

  9. 'Diet For A Small Planet' by Frances Lapp

  10. 'Mucusless Diet Healing System' by Arnold Ehret

  11. Chogyam Trungpa's "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism"

Articles​

  1. "Secrets of the Little Blue Box,"

The Music That Inspired Steve Jobs​

  1. Bob Dylan - bootlegs
  2. Beatles
  3. Stones
  4. Joan Baez - Love Is A Four Letter Word song
  5. Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now song
  6. "Uncle John's Band" by the Grateful Dead
  7. Glenn Gould

Quotes From His Biography​

"If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will."

"People don’t know what they want until you show it to them."

"I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on."