In Walter Isaacson’s biography about Steve Jobs, readers learn that Jobs’s sense of taste was formed in his childhood when he enjoyed spending time with his father and where his family lived in California had a huge influence on him. Steve Jobs’s sense of aesthetic taste can be described as simple and elegant. His obsession with design and product integrity grew with his life experiences and this paper will comment on Jobs’s virtue of purity that refines his sense of taste.
Steve Jobs’s interest in design began with the love for his childhood home. He lived in a working-class subdivision between San Francisco and San Jose that was full of engineers. One of the first engineers he admired was his father Paul Jobs. Paul was a repo man for a
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When he was assigned the task of designing a game, he asked his friend Steve Wozniak to help and promised to split the rewarding fee. When the assignment was completed, Jobs gave Wozniak half of the base fee and not the bonus that he also received. Wozniak was shocked at this discovery years later, but Jobs denied the claim was true. The Atari experience had helped Jobs’s approach to not only engineering, but also the business aspect (54). He had a characteristic of an entrepreneur that could not be defined. “‘That simplicity rubbed off on him and made him a very focused product person,’ said Ron Wayne” (54). Steve got things done by making people think he was completely in …show more content…
His commencement speech turned out to be very intimate and simple because he had made it personal. After his health scare, he was in a reflective mood so his speech consisted of three stories: dropping out of Reed College, getting fired from Apple, and being diagnosed with cancer and the awareness it brought. The speech ended with a “feel of a perfect Steve Jobs product” because it expressed artful minimalism yet it was simplistic, pure, and full of charm (456). It was no presentation, but the story of his