These books feature contributions from notable figures across business, design, technology, and the arts, written in response to questions posed by past and present SJA Fellows. The title is a nod to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet—one of Steve’s favorites—and to Steve’s own practice of exchanging ideas as a path toward clarity.
Letters to a Young Creator features reflections from Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Paola Antonelli, Jon M. Chu, Es Devlin, and many more on what it takes to bridge the gap between idea and execution.
Steve Jobs was a big fan of the pithy aphorism, coining a fair few of his own to distil and disseminate his laser-like focus on business, culture and creativity. The new two-volume publication from the Steve Jobs Archive, Letters to a Young Creator, has been compiled by the archive and Laurene Powell Jobs as a way of inspiring a new generation of innovators.
The first recipients of Letters to a Young Creator were those selected for the one-year SJA Fellowship. This programme, which launched in 2023, offers fellows a stipend to ‘pursue their ideas’, in addition to support, access and mentorship.
Letters to a Young Creator is available now as a free digital publication from the Steve Jobs Archive, SteveJobsArchive.com
