I was hoping for more of that with this book. Yup, I like Star Wars and when I’ve heard Carrie Fisher speak I’ve enjoyed the interviews and her candid, sometimes crass responses. While some of the sentences were word for word repetitive, overall I now want to meet Wozniak because he seems like that kind uncle you always loved and was ready for a joke with you despite the decorum your parents expected. If you’re interested in the other Steve that made Apple, I enjoyed this book. Their collaboration was required at the time to make Apple happen. Wozniak admits that Jobs was the better marketer that got the computers moving forward. Innovators focused more on the cross-pollination than iWoz did, but you can see the collaboration there too. This lined up with what Innovators got across, that it was a bunch of things that came together at the right time to bring us computers. One of the threads that seemed random but then came together was all the random projects he took on that culminated in him having all the skill needed to design and build the first Apple computers.īecause he cloned Pong and built Breakout, and hacked TVs to get signals into them, and spent years drawing diagrams of circuits he had all the skills needed to make a large advancement in what computers were at the time. Throughout this book, Wozniak told the story of his life. He is also the far less hard-driving amiable Steve in the iconic partnership that started one of the biggest companies in the world. He was the one that could make the dreams of Steve Jobs live in practical ways. He’s the technical brain that invented the first Apple computers.

Steve Wozniak is the other founding Steve of Apple Computer. First, we’ll talk about Steve Wozniak’s look at his life in iWoz and then we’ll talk about Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking. Today we’re going to look at two different memoirs from famous people.

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