Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs

By: Fake Steve Jobs

Published October 23rd 2007 by Da Capo Press (first published October 18th 2007)

Category: Business

Pages: 248 pages

ISBN: 9780306815843

Description:
Welcome to the mind, to the world of Fake Steve Jobs. Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: ÒObviously we canÕt literally put our employeesÕ lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way.Ó Fake Steve the political hobnobber: ÒI can see why they keep Nancy Pelosi under wraps. Wacky as a dime watch.Ó Fake Steve quoting friend/musician/philosopher Bono on road etiquette: ÒTink about dat next toim yer cuttin off some bloke and you donÕt know who it is, right? Could be Jay-sus. Or Boutros Boutros-Ghali or sumfin.Ó And on, yes, himself: ÒGeniuses have feelings, too.Ó In the tradition of Thank You for Smoking and in the spirit of The Onion, Options is a novelistic sendup and takedown of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C., as viewed by a central character who exists, to his immense self-satisfaction, at the crossroads of all three worlds: ÒItÕs like in one of those movies where a guy realizes heÕs got telekinetic powers and itÕs just too bad if he doesnÕt want them, heÕs got them. Likewise, I have this gift. ItÕs who I am.Ó