Don't worry, I won't bore you with reading the biography of Steve Jobs, everyone already knows it by heart. Instead, let's take a look at a few books I've read that I think are definitely worth your time if you're a tech geek.
Valley of Genius
When I was wandering around with a friend this year while waiting for WWDC the streets of Cupertino and then I had the opportunity to enter directly into the legendary original headquarters Applu Infinite Loop and then spend the whole day in Apple Park, I was somehow drawn to the whole Silicon Valley atmosphere. That's why I bought the book Valley of Genius, which maps the beginnings of Silicon Valley, when I was in America. The book takes you back to the time when it all began. To the time when Steve Jobs was just an ambitious weirdo who started a company with an apple in its name. By the time Steve Wozniak he weighed 100 kilos less and every skirt in Cupertino turned behind him. If you want to immerse yourself in this era and the streets of Cupertino and its surroundings, then this book is the best way to do it.
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Confessions of young hackers
A book that I read when I was fifteen and I still remember it like it was yesterday tells the stories of young hackers. Those who didn't hack for money, for belief, or because they might hurt someone. It tells the stories of those who hacked out of pure passion for technology. They hacked to understand the system, to understand how deep it was possible to go in controlling products or systems. Here you will find a story about a young man who decided to go spread his bread with butter and jam at three in the morning. When he was done and about to eat his slice, he found his father coming into the living room and, fearing that he was scolding him for his late night snack, he decided to hide the slice. The only place this was possible was on a VHS player. The next day, when he was pulling out the slicer and cleaning the VHS player, he found out how it was possible to play illegal copies of movies. A few years later, he became one of the most elite hackers in the world. And this book is exactly about these people, which I can only recommend to everyone.
Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley
The book maps the beginnings of Silicon Valley from 1985 to 2000, giving you the opportunity to see unique photos of empty houses.ancelari Applu or, for example, a photo of Steve Jobs's board, decorated with a large inscription Deep Shit. There are also photos Billa Gatesat a time when, at least judging by his expression and appearance, he was not yet very clear about his sexual orientation. The book is not focused only on the subject himself Apple, but on 192 pages full of unique photographs it focuses on the entire valley and so you will discover photographs of people like Jeff Bezos, Marc Andreessen, David Hockney or for example Steve WozniakEach photo is accompanied by a short story that directly relates to it.
Doug Menuez had the honor of being there, of being at the birth of projects and products that have inevitably changed our lives, changed our times, and now, thanks to his book, you have the same opportunity, and I can only recommend it to anyone who wants to find out at least a little bit about how it was back then. After reading the book, you will find that the beginnings of the largest companies in the world, whose products we use every day, were not full of shine and glitter in the spotlight, but on the contrary, these greats started from almost the same little as, for example, LsAIt is incredible what a journey they have managed to take and how far these gentlemen have taken their dreams.
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Good books, thanks.
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I would recommend Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs. This is not just a biography. But it's not for people who are lazy to read.
And by the way, I'd like to hope that this mistake is just accidental: "he founded a company that had".
Correction: *But it's also not for people who are lazy to read.*
Mr. Tomáš, this biography has already been recommended about 50 times... Otherwise, I'm sorry, but I don't see anything wrong with the belief you quote.