The Steve Jobs Archive announces its latest publication:

Letters to a Young Creator is a collection of honest perspectives on what it takes to make something great, written by people who have done it before.

The series features 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.

Laurene Powell Jobs, in her introduction to the collection:

Among the books that mattered to Steve was Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. I’m struck by this line from its pages: “Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future.”

This is a time to live your questions. The beauty of answers, when they do come, is that they allow us to ask new and better questions. Life is learning how much we have yet to learn. In this volume, we have asked distinguished creators of diverse fields to share some of their answers to questions you asked at the beginning of your fellowship year. You’ll find candid stories of struggle and success, mistakes, and milestones. The wisdom they share in their reflections was forged by asking the kinds of questions you’re asking now.

I’ve read a few of the essays and each one sparked a moment of joy, reflection, or inspiration. I expect I’ll return to it often.

The collection is also available on Apple Books and as an EPUB. To mark the launch of the collection, the SJA organization is hosting a Zoom event with Letters contributor Es Devlin on Wednesday, March 4. I’m signed up.