That’s where you’ll be the most creative.”
He said, “That’s in the DNA, if you can stand at that intersection between the arts and sciences or between beauty and engineering. You have to be creative and have imagination, and one of the things I learned from Steve Jobs, just watching him onstage, he always showed the intersection of the liberal arts street with technology street. You have to be inventive, as you said, innovative. I’ve written about a lot of smart people, Ben Franklin and Steve Jobs and Einstein, and I began to realize that smart people are kind of common. Let’s give the listeners a little background of all the books you’ve written, focused on inventors, really - on tech and inventors. It’s sort of the mountain I wanted to try to scale.īecause last time we talked, you had written about women in tech and stuff like that, and Steve Jobs before that, and obviously Franklin and Einstein.
I’ve been working on this for like 15, 20 years. You are just like a machine of creating books. What a great inventor, but Walter has previously written biographies of people like Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs - also great inventors - and is CEO of the nonprofit Aspen Institute. He’s the author of a new biography of Leonardo da Vinci, perhaps our first and greatest inventor. Today in the red chair is Walter Isaacson, who I’ve interviewed many times before. You can find more episodes of Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts, or just visit /podcasts for more. You’re listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media’s key players, big ideas and how they’re changing the world we live in. I’m Kara Swisher, executive director of Recode. If you like this, be sure to subscribe to Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Overcast or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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