I had just finished listening to Walter Isaacson’s biography about Steve Jobs when I came across a new book about Steve Jobs titled Becoming Steve Jobs.

Written by Brent Schender and Rick Tetzeli, I think it’s meant to balance Isaacson’s warts-and-all book with a warmer, more positive depiction of Steve the person.  I may read it or may not; for now, I’ll put it on the list of “possibles.”

Not that I’m uninterested in learning more about Jobs, an incredibly polarizing and fascinating person.  It’s just that I thought Isaacson painted a compelling portrait of a person who passionately pursued his vision, who accomplished great things in his lifetime, and who may not have been the nicest person in the world in doing so.

But Jobs was okay with that.  Otherwise, he would not have gotten in touch with Isaacson to write his biography, and he would not have provided Isaacson with a list of supporters and critics to talk to, and he would not have encouraged them all to be extremely honest in the telling.

If Jobs was good with all that, I guess I am too.

Still, I do have a few questions, such as how he squared his deep interest in Zen Buddhism with what comes across at times as a rock-hard mean streak.  But that is probably a question only Jobs himself could answer.

Or maybe the new book does.  In which case, I just might have to move it up on the list.