The Steve Jobs Archive Project has published a new book by the Apple founder. “Make Something Wonderful” is an intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs in his own words – with personal correspondence, interviews, photographs.
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Apple founder Steve Jobs passed away in 2011 after a long illness, but even now his personality continues to inspire people. Jobs’ thoughts can now be found in an electronic collection of his personal correspondence, public speeches and interviews. According to Lauren Powell Jobs, Steve’s widow, it’s a cross between a posthumous memoir and a scrapbook.
“They wrote about him, but these are really his works and his work. Therefore, there is no intermediary,” she said.
The book was called “Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs In His Own Words.” The first part is a phrase Steve said during an internal meeting at Apple shortly after the launch of the first iPhone product line in 2007:
“I think one of the ways to express my gratitude to humanity is to make something beautiful and release it,” he said at the time.
The Steve Jobs Archive, which recently launched a site dedicated to the tech titan, is publishing the book with free access through a dedicated page developed by former Apple chief designer Jony Ive’s creative agency LoveFrom.
The website allows readers to navigate through the book’s content using a scroll bar marked with subsections. The e-book version is also available from Apple Books, participating libraries through the Libby app, or direct download from the archive.
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The website states that the book describes Jobs’ views on “his childhood, the launch of Apple, and his time at Pixar and NeXT.” The content is drawn from notes and drafts that Steve sent to himself via e-mail (some ending with the words “sent from my iPad”), as well as excerpts from letters and speeches, interviews and photographs. For example, the cover features a Polaroid photograph of a young Steve Jobs in a tuxedo with a bow tie slightly off to one side.
Steve Jobs was a technology revolutionary in Silicon Valley who helped shape the way the world uses technology today, bringing Apple back from the brink of bankruptcy and making it the first American company to reach $1 trillion in market capitalization and later surpass $2 trillion. Under Jobs’ leadership, Apple introduced pocket-sized portable devices such as the iPod and iPhone that changed the way the world listened to music, browsed the web, and communicated; it also introduced the touchscreen technology seen in the iPhone and iPad. In 2010, MarketWatch named Jobs the CEO of the decade.
