Jobs’s Waverly Street home – Steve Jobs’s former home on Waverly Street in Palo Alto is indeed located near the Elizabeth Gamble Garden. The house was elegant but understated, sparsely furnished, and reflected Jobs’s minimalist aesthetic. He and his family lived without security guards or live-in staff and were known to leave their back door unlocked [Isaacson-2], [W-Jobs-Home-1,2].

Vision for Apple’s new headquarters – Jobs championed the design of Apple’s new Cupertino headquarters—later nicknamed the “spaceship” for its circular, futuristic architecture. He presented the plans to the Cupertino City Council in 2011, just months before his death. The building, officially known as Apple Park, was completed and opened in 2017 [Isaacson-2], [Schlender].

Apple University and succession planning – Jobs established Apple University to preserve the company’s culture and decision-making philosophy. He also recommended Tim Cook as his successor and made strategic moves to ensure Apple’s long-term success beyond his tenure [Isaacson-2], [Schlender], [Jobs-MSW].

Unfinished projects and unrealized visions – Among Jobs’s unfinished initiatives were plans to digitize school textbooks and his vision for a breakthrough smart TV. He told biographer Walter Isaacson that he had “cracked” the problem of creating a simple, integrated television interface, but he died before sharing full details or bringing the idea to market [Isaacson-2], [Schlender].

Books about Jobs and his own words – Numerous books chronicle Jobs’s life from different perspectives, including Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography, Leander Kahney’s Inside Steve’s Brain, and especially Make Something Wonderful, a collection of Jobs’s own words curated by his widow Laurene Powell Jobs [Isaacson-2], [Schlender], [Kahney], [Jobs-MSW].

Jobs’s approach to his children’s screen time – Despite creating the iPhone and iPad, Jobs strictly limited his children’s use of technology. He told Isaacson that family dinners focused on books and conversation, not screens. As Nick Bilton later noted in The New York Times, Jobs said of the iPad, “They haven’t used it. We limit how much technology our kids use at home” [Isaacson-2], [Bilton, 2014].

Burglary at Jobs’s home – In August 2012, about nine months after Jobs’s death, his Palo Alto home was burglarized. An intruder stole many electronic devices and personal items, as reported in multiple news accounts. The suspect was tracked down through his IP address after he used iTunes on one of the stolen devices, and he was later convicted [Burglary-1-4, 2012].