This - I can't stand the guy..
Oh, here was a blog post I wrote way back when I got the iWoz book. I think I was nicer this time around.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13301751/iWoz.pdf
--- Original Post in 2010 ---
So I bought the audio book iWoz. It’s an autobiography by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer. I should have known what I was getting into by reading the full title: iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It. From the title on, Steve never stops telling you how important he was, how smart he is, and all the great things he invented that you didn’t– because he’s just that much smarter than you. Gag me with a spoon!
It was really hard enduring the first hour of the book. If I had to read the print version, I’m sure I’d have tossed it out my window before the second chapter. It got to a point in between him telling me all the blue ribbons he won at science fairs and how he was the only one in the world who could do x, y, or z, that I had to shut off part one, and go to part two. It was a bit better, but not by much.
The problem is that Steve Wozniak doesn’t stop talking about how great and smart he is. Yes, I get it. He is a genius, a brilliant man. But to have to hear him constantly telling me as such really gets annoying. There were times I would burst out laughing, and actually speak to myself out loud, “I know Steve, I know you are,” quietly reassuring him of his brilliance. Basically, this guy pissed me off. I never really had any connection with him, though I always idolized Steve Jobs, the other Apple co-founder. But after listening to (most of) this book, I had to delete it with probably 3 hours still to listen.
Woz comes off as annoying, obnoxious, and just a rather impossible person to spend any meaningful time with. He’s someone who will let you know at every turn when you are doing something wrong. And what’s more, he’ll tell you how he does it to perfection. My advise for Woz– let other people write your history and tell us how brilliant you are.
PS- Yeah, it was a waste of $14.95
