Einstein, The Life of a Genius

Reading a biography is, for me, a way to feel as though I know the subject.  This book is filled with facsimile documents and memorabilia, which help to understand the theories that this brilliant physicist developed.  Is that even possible?  What it does reveal about the genius are varieties in his personal life, the continued love of making music, his role in the development of the atomic bomb and his passions and concerns for political and social issues.  So much more about Albert Einstein than the famous E=mc2. 

Steve Jobs

After having read the last word of Steve Jobs' biography I felt that I really knew him.  The author, Walter Isaacson, was given full access per Jobs' wishes.  An American genius, he is compared to Edison and Ford.  He was an artist in his zeal to create products that would serve the user with beautifully minimal design. 

It happened that I was frequently swimming with a member of the team who created the first ipod commercials.  So exciting to then see, all over the world, the dancing shadow that told exactly what a heretofore unknown product would do.