Steve Jobs in Exile is a fine profile of Jobs' years at NeXT

Key points

• In the late 1990s, I was a precocious Mac nerd who pored over issues of Macworld, stayed up late chatting on IRC, and downloaded pirated software that I didn’t actually need.
• I came of age at the tail end of the dial-up modem and BBS era—and got to witness the early days of the World Wide Web.
• I wanted to know where all of this had come from and how it had happened so quickly.
• The grown-ups around me seemed mystified at best and indifferent at worst.
• So I turned to books.