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6PM — Several copies of Make Something Wonderful, the collection of Steve Jobs quotes, are for sale eBay. I’m not surprised that some copies show up on eBay, but I am surprised how many there are. There are at least a hundred for sale, priced up to 3,000 USD. If you got your hands on this limited edition, which are not sold publicly, then you’re probably not the janitor at Apple Park and you don’t need the money. People must have put their copies on eBay within hours of receiving them without even opening the book.

8AM — Make Something Wonderful is a new book published by the Steve Jobs Archive that includes words by Steve Jobs on a great variety of topics. The Steve Jobs Archive has an agenda, and the book is obviously curated and edited to paint a certain picture of Jobs. This isn’t a biography that aims to explore the complex person Jobs was. But to truly understand a person you have to listen to their own words. So that’s what this book is: long quotes by Steve Jobs from speeches, notes and correspondence. For most people the book is only available digitally. But it’s free and comes in different formats: Apple Books, epub and as a website. Go read it on the website—it’s great.

5PM — Anna Mancini tells the story of how the Apple archives ended up at Stanford. It’s strange how much major news outlets either recite wrong accounts or rewrite history to fit the narrative of the larger-than-life leader who was just as visionary as he was rooted in history. And how you rarely hear about the people who get done seemingly mundane things such as preserving an archive; because they work in the background and don’t spend much time giving interviews.

2PM — “Apple fired 4,100 when Steve Jobs returned in 1997.”