{"uri":"https://octothorp.es/","term":"walter-isaacson","thorpes":[{"uri":"https://justatheory.com/2011/11/steve-jobs/","title":"Steve Jobs","description":"Until a few weeks ago, the biography I read most recently was Dutch, Edmund Morris’s authorized portrait of Ronald Reagan. I read it not because I was interested in Reagan, but because Morris did something unique: he inserted himself into Reagan’s story as a (mostly) fictional character. Why would he do that? Morris grew up in Kenya, far from Reagan’s childhood in Illinois, not to mention years later. And yet there he was, a peripheral character throughout the story of Reagan’s life. What was the point?"}],"bookmarks":[]}