Noah Schwartzberg

Executive Editor @portfoliobooks / @penguinrandom

[Geoffrey Cain @geoffrey_cain]

Stoked to join @shaneparrish today to record an episode of The Knowledge Project.

If you'd like to know about anything Steve Jobs, leadership, and the craft of biography, let me know here.

[Eddie Fishman @edwardfishman]

An absolute blast to join @Trevornoah and @eugenekhoza on @WhatNowPodcast to discuss the forces upending the geopolitical order -- from the Iran war and nuclear weapons to chokepoints, economic warfare, the petrodollar, Putin's Russia, and Xi's China. https://t.co/ZzZaUVLQhW

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The New York Times published a roundtable discussion between @DAcemogluMIT, @deanwball, @clarashih & myself about the future of AI & who wins at work. I think it is a really nice overview of the core debates on the topic, and has some fun examples. https://t.co/aizA83fpti

[Eddie Fishman @edwardfishman]

🇫🇷 Very excited for Chokepoints to be published in French on June 17 🇫🇷

[Geoffrey Cain @geoffrey_cain]

Thanks everyone for all your incredible messages and support for Steve Jobs in Exile. The sheer amount of reader feedback has been inspiring.

For media and podcast requests, I'm sorry to say I can't respond to every message during the book tour. For that, please contact publicist Lauren Ball at [email protected]. Thanks!

[Geoffrey Cain @geoffrey_cain]

Great review today.

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

In writing the report I spoke to dozens of investors, officials, regulators and bankers, current and former, and got a very worrying picture - almost none believe US issuance is sustainable, and several had quite a gloomy view of the direction of travel for the market.

[Geoffrey Cain @geoffrey_cain]

Stellar review of Steve Jobs in Exile in @arstechnica. Cyrus Farivar calls it an addition to the classic books about Silicon Valley. https://t.co/xfSVKikfYh

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

🚨I have a new book coming out October 20: Co-Existence!

It is about how we live & work with AIs that are sometimes (but not always) smarter than we are. And it has a cool cover.

You can pre-order: https://t.co/Ti5jo6ksfI
And here is a post with context: https://t.co/YpWvCG4dUD

[Geoffrey Cain @geoffrey_cain]

David Senra at @FoundersPodcast released a full-throttled episode on Steve Jobs in Exile, looking at how Steve's lost years were defined by failures and how this transformed him into @Apple's leader. https://t.co/BloFkirO33

[Businessweek @BW]

A global art conspiracy saw a nation's heritage ransacked. Decades later, investigators tracked down the perpetrators.

@MattCampbell discusses his book The Man Who Stole the Gods https://t.co/OzqvY4EfFl

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

I found a great quote in this book about Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs:

“They were both human magnets turned to maximum strength, either pulling people into their orbit or flinging them away. There was no neutral ground with either man.”

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

This is tonight! Be there or be regretful forever!

[Geoffrey Cain @geoffrey_cain]

A good way to close out May: the Wall Street Journal named Steve Jobs in Exile one of its 12 best-reviewed books of the month.

[Bloomberg @business]

In this weekend’s On Books newsletter, we read all of Warren Buffett’s letters. Plus, divorce memoirs that aren’t Belle Burden's "Strangers" https://t.co/hEOb4qcN4M

[Geoffrey Cain @geoffrey_cain]

I dug this up from my reporter's notebook on STEVE JOBS IN EXILE. One of the lesser-known stories: Steve was doing business with intelligence agencies at NeXT.

One of Steve's closest colleagues let me go through his private archives. I was going through them when Ross Perot (later a presidential candidate), references to the military and intelligence started showing up.

Ross Perot opened the door for Steve as an investor and board member at NeXT. He and Jobs shook hands on a plan to land government contracts.

Before long the spies were turning up at NeXT HQ in plain clothes, with no business cards, only giving generic first names like Bob and Sally. They wanted the NeXT Cube, Steve's computer, as a spy machine. It could process satellite imagery in real time, and its optical disks could be destroyed right after reading, so nothing classified ever stayed on a drive. (All this was novel in the 1980s.)

But despite his earlier agreement with Ross, Steve decided he didn't want to be there. He had spent his career preaching his mission to build computers for the rest of us. Selling machines to Langley cut against his core values. He told his own people he didn't trust the feds.

The agencies set up a demo for him at one point, a secure site outside Washington. A former CIA chief, whose office put the first high-resolution spy satellites into space, waited in the NeXT parking lot for Jobs to pull up. He never came.

"I don't want to do business with the federal government," Steve told a colleague, and that was the end of it that day.

NeXT was running low on cash, though, and the government had plenty of it. So Steve had to choose, eventually. And this was one of the more tension-fueled parts of his life at NeXT.

[Businessweek @BW]

How investigators tracked down a former child soldier whose heists drove a worldwide art theft network. https://t.co/QA7QMuen3l

[Bloomberg @business]

A global art conspiracy saw a nation's heritage ransacked. Decades later, investigators tracked down the perpetrators.

@MattCampbell discusses his book The Man Who Stole the Gods https://t.co/q48fLdmdhd

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

If you're within 100 miles of NEW YORK CITY on June 1st, you would be REMISS not to find your way you MCNALLY JACKSON SEAPORT at 7pm for this once-in-a-generation event. I'll be speaking to @MattCampbell about his brilliant book, The Man Who Stole The Gods

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

Absolutely chuffed to get my hands on the Taiwanese edition of The Land Trap 《土地制富》- if you see it out in the wild let me know!