Inside Steve's Brain by Leander Kahney

It's safe to say that most folks reading this book will have more than passing familiarity with Steve Jobs. If anything, the book is aimed right at Jobs' fiercest supporters and most wary apostles. This is a book for anyone interested in Apple Computer, eccentric personalties, business and creative inspiration, or just looking for something to reinforce their impulsive decision to short Apple stock over the last few months.

For all these reasons, Inside Steve's Brain ranks as a real disappointment. Anyone who's read either Kahney's own blog, The Cult of Mac, or either of his other books, or just picked up one of Newsweek's fawning quarterly Apple cover stories, is more than familiar with the material covered here. In going over the material again in my head, I can't really think of any tidbit of information gained from the book, that I hadn't already picked up from another source over the years.

MY advice to those interested in learning about this fascinating, bizarre, inspiring, but infuriating man, will probably learn a lot more, and find a lot more entertainment, if they pick up a copy of Pirates of Silicon Valley and watch that instead.

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