Steve Jobs Archive releases ‘Letters to a Young Creator’ featuring Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and more

Read Jony Ive’s advice to young creatives

Two new books, freely released by the Steve Jobs Archive, feature invaluable advice to aspiring minds. In this exclusive excerpt, we hear from Jony Ive.

Family and friends commemorate Steve Jobs with inspirational letters

On the Apple founder's 71st birthday, the Steve Jobs Archive has unveiled "Letters to a Young Creator," a gorgeously designed collection with genuinely inspiring advice for anyone starting out in their career.Steve Jobs (left) with the cover of the new book "Letters to a Young Creator" (right) — image credits: Apple, Steve Jobs ArdhiveThe new project has been launched to commemorate what would have been Apple founder Steve Jobs's 71st birthday. …

Steve Jobs Archive releases ‘Letters to a Young Creator’ featuring Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and more

The Steve Jobs Archive has published a project online called Letters to a Young Creator. Timed with what would be...

Tim Cook Reflects on Joining Apple and Steve Jobs

In an August 2024 letter published by The Steve Jobs Archive today, Tim Cook reflected on joining Apple and what he learned from working with Steve Jobs. Jobs convinced Cook to join Apple in 1998, to help turn around the company: I'll never forget that first conversation with Steve. At the time, Apple had been struggling and Steve was working to right a ship that had drifted in his absence.

The Steve Jobs Archive: ‘Letters to a Young Creator’

Laurene Powell Jobs, in her introduction to the newest publication from the Steve Jobs Archive: Among the books that mattered to Steve was Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. I'm struck by this line from its pages: "Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future." This is a time to live your questions. The beauty of answers, when they do come, is that th…

The Ghost in the Machine: How Steve Jobs’s Creative Philosophy Still Shapes Apple Two Decades After His Death

More than a decade after Steve Jobs’s death in 2011, the co-founder’s creative instincts continue to exert a gravitational pull on Apple’s leadership. In a revealing new account, both CEO Tim Cook and former chief design officer Jony Ive have spoken about how Jobs’s advice — particularly his insistence on honoring creative instincts over market research — remains a guiding principle at the company he built. The remarks offer a rare window into t…