Photo from Apple's Keynote speech announcing the iPhone 4S a day before Steve Jobs passing.
Steve Jobs, one of the heroes and visionaries of our generation and certainly mine passed away today. I reminisced over the phone with Kaizar, a fellow Apple fanboy who was in the trenches with me back when everyone gleefully rubbed their hands as Apple looked headed towards bankruptcy. Our friendship formed in college around the topic of Apple or rather our love of Apple. There are not many people in our generation or younger that have roots with Apple as a consumer that goes as far back as him and I. I make this point because what I always found so inspiring and admirable about Jobs wasn't his success as steward of the booming and ascendant company that it is today per se, but that he achieved this despite all his failures. He wasn't always the frontrunner that he is today where if you don't use one of his devices, then people look at you like you're crazy. I remember a time when it was the very opposite. He had his failures and challenges. He had people tell him he can't. He shouldn't. He wouldn't! He did not care. He had a vision and he stuck with it. We are lucky he didn't listen to us along the way.
I hope there's an inspired kid out there who will be the next Steve Jobs of figuring out how to get rid of cancer. Fuck that shit.
(Posted from Macbook Air)