I read Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography over a few nights. I already knew the highlights. I wanted to see if any of it was useful for how I work on websites.
A lot of it is myth. Fine. Myth is not a process.
What I kept coming back to was how hard he pushed to remove things. Not features for the sake of being difficult. Anything that made the person using the product do extra thinking. If you needed a speech before the thing made sense, the thing was unfinished.
That matches how I already get about UI and code. I am picky. I rewrite clean setups. I care about best practices. Reading him did not invent that. It made me less polite about it.
What I actually changed
I started cutting more in reviews. Options I added to be helpful. Copy that exists because the flow is unclear. AI output that sounds done but still needs a human to decide.
I also stopped treating every good idea as something that has to ship. Most ideas are fine. Shipping all of them makes the product heavier and the codebase worse.
The book is long. The useful part for me was short. Make the next action obvious. Delete what is theater. Do not confuse cleverness with craft.