Just spent an hour or so at my IMac in my own personal memorial to Steve Jobs, reading everything I could get my mouse on about him. Thought I’d share a bit of what I found, the best of which is his commencement speech at Stanford in 2005, something I’ve watched several times before but can’t listen to enough. When I get up the guts to really follow his advice, I’ll let you know.
A truly great man. A truly great loss.
- NY Times Obit and editorial by Matt Bai
- The Wizard & the Mortal – Both sides of the great man, w/ analogies to Thomas Edison
- WSJ Obit – Nice collection of pics, video, graphics & comments.
- Gizmodo Obit – great pics.
- Cult of MacTV gives a nice video tribute
- The Macworld Obit looks at Jobs legacy at Apple
- The Examiner looks at Jobs’ spiritual life
- Slate Magazine on Jobs use of LSD “one of the two or three important things I have done in my life” (Expect LSD use to rise…)
- Steve Wozniak’s twitter stream – remarkably mundane, but his blog posts several interviews
- Bill Gates posts condolances
- Mashable posts 15 inspirational Steve Jobs quotes
- The Daily Mail takes the Tabloid view of the “tangled family” and $$ Jobs leaves behind. Lots of pics. (Expect People Magazine cover story this week….)
- Apple store vigil last night. (Am surprised not to find a Steve Jobs Iphone tribute app. Hopefully someone is working on one right now. ..)
- Apple’s simple memorial page.
I loved this: http://daringfireball.net/2011/10/universe_dented_grass_underfoot
Rachel –
Wow. That is really wonderful. Captures perfectly the image of Jobs as the an with his priorities in all the right places.
Though clearly not a perfect balance . I read that one of the reasons he was working with a biographer at the end was that he knew he had not been around enough, and he wanted his kids to know him and what he had been doing all those times he was not with them.
Still, all in all, a life, though imperfect, very well lived.