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October 6, 2011

Steve Jobs

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In Memo­riam

[Print out the high-rez ver­sion from here etc.] [Buy the print here etc.]

I remem­ber the first time I saw the TV Ad.

It chan­ged my life.

It was the first com­mer­cial I’d ever seen in my life, that actually spoke to me, my true self, and not just to wha­te­ver short-term, tri­vial needs I had going on that day (i.e. like pretty much every sin­gle other com­mer­cial out there).

It was then I knew that I wasn’t just one of the crazy ones, but that it was also IMPERATIVE to actually be one of the crazy ones. That my life and soul deman­ded it.

It’s not what Steve Jobs crea­ted in his his brief but incan­des­cent life– the com­pu­ters, iPods, iPho­nes etc etc– that isn’t the big story.

And what we crea­ted with his pro­ducts, that isn’t the big story, either.

The big story is what Steve hel­ped us believe about our­sel­ves. By put­ting his balls on the line, again and again, he made it easier for us to do the same.

And so we did.

Thank you, Steve. You will be mis­sed. Of course you fric­kin’ will…

[UPDATE: Anita has already down­loa­ded it, prin­ted it out, put it up and pos­ted the photo on the gallery web­site. Feel free to do the same. Very cool. Thanks, Anita!]

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