2022: this only made my already low opinion of Steve Jobs worse

I felt like I had missed the boat on reading this book when it came out in 2018 and when it was being talked about non-stop. There were so many stories coming out about Steve Jobs after his death, not only [a:Walter Isaacson|7111|Walter Isaacson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1192222433p2/7111.jpg]'s biography but also several movies that were biopics. This book was portrayed as a rebuttal or a reply to many of those works about Steve, and I do feel like I missed out a little on some of the context by never seeing or reading any of those.

If you had asked me what my thoughts on Steve Jobs were before reading this memoir, I probably would have said that he was a problematic, manipulative wackadoodle who was a genius while being extremely hard to work with. After reading this book, I can only add "poor father" to his list of qualities. What an enigmatic human. It's hard to discount the amount that he added to the world, but I do not envy the toll that it took on his family and friends around him.

Brennan-Jobs is a strong writer and I had to look up several words, which I always enjoy. It was also fun reading this book after having lived nearby in California, and recognizing all of the places that Brennan-Jobs was referencing. After reading this memoir, it does make me want to dig into Isaacson's mountain of a book, but I think I will approach it with a much more critical eye than I might have before reading this memoir.