Summary

This chapter is primarily about the wide variety of relationships that Jobs had during the 1980s-90s. In the early 1980s, Jobs dated the folk musician Joan Baez, who also dated Bob Dylan. She recalls a time when Jobs insisted that, in the future, computer would make better sounding music than humans, which upset her. Not long after this, the relationship ended. While all of this was happening, Jobs began searching for his biological parents. He got in touch with the doctor who delivered him but told him nothing. However, he did write a letter that revealed Jobs’ parentage and marked it to be delivered to Jobs when the doctor died.

Jobs waited until his adopted mother died to get in touch with his biological mother. He met his mother, who had changed her name to Joanne Simpson, in Los Angeles...