He left Apple as a loose canon, a renegade who kept sabotaging his own projects, often losing touch with reality. NeXT brought him back to Earth, both in terms

He left Apple as a loose canon, a renegade who kept sabotaging his own projects, often losing touch with reality. NeXT brought him back to Earth, both in terms of being able to produce a product people wanted, and in terms of managing a team without being a total tyrant. It wasn't a smooth progression, NeXT did start out pretty out-there, but in the end it was more pragmatic. OpenSTEP and other efforts demonstrated that. The Isaacson biography isn't worth the paper it's printed on. It's utter garbage. I can't believe someone has that level of access and churns out a book that's basically the Cliff's Notes version of all other books about Jobs already published.