Make Something Wonderful
Year First Appeared
2023
Creator
Leslie Berlin, Laurene Powell Jobs
Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words is a curated collection of Steve Jobs' speeches, interviews, emails, and other correspondence that offers an unparalleled window into how he approached his life and work, including photographs and context spanning his childhood, Apple, Pixar, and NeXT.
Importance in Internet Culture
As a born‑digital, freely accessible “web book, ” Make Something Wonderful models contemporary archival publishing while preserving primary texts that helped shape Silicon Valley’s product and startup ethos, most famously Jobs’s 2005 Stanford address (“Stay hungry. Stay foolish”). By assembling previously unpublished emails and photos alongside landmark speeches and interviews, it deepens the web’s collective memory of the ideas and practices that influenced modern tech culture.
Interesting Fact
Alongside the web and e‑book editions, a limited hardcover run was produced only for Apple and Disney employees and was not offered for public sale. The Archive notes the collection includes material “never seen before by the public, ” and outlets highlighted LoveFrom’s custom‑designed web experience and typeface for the online edition.