life with Lillian nor frustrations – he just kept going.
THREE THINGS Today, I read that he stayed working to the end. Tose close to him revealed the three things he strived to finish before he went… (Jobs’ presentation bytes always come in threes) – like the famous commencement address he gave to the University of Stanford graduates in 2005 – an address quoted so often it has become his classical sermon. Tat was when he talked about connecting the dots, about love and loss, and then about Death. Tat time he had recovered from cancer, living an additional six years. Tis time he knew that death was certain. So Jobs set himself three tasks to complete before dying. All three are to benefit others, not himself.
He felt “liberated”, he told those closest to him, liberated enough to let his inventive mind once again flow free.
Tat was when Steve Jobs set up NEXT and PIXAR, and gave the world new manifestations of his creative genius. Pixar is today the world’s largest and most successful animation film studio and we owe today’s great animated movies to the heritage of TOY STORY and FINDING NEMO. I do not need to rehash the Apple story after he returned to his old company many years later, after APPLE “acquired” NEXT, because much of his triumph, his legendary presentations and marketing skills, and how he converted millions of customers into die-hard APPLE fans has already been written about.
HOW AWED WE ALL ARE… I only want to say how awed we all are - from the oldest amongst us like me and my husband (who cannot live without his iPad these days) - to our staff and to our grandchildren,
38 FENGSHUIWORLD | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2011 others’ opinions drown out “Don’t let the noise of
your own inner voice.” - Steve Jobs at
Stanford University, 2005
as young as Jack and Joshy who play games, watch cartoons and fiddle around with the other apps. The iPad is truly the best nanny around - it will keep even the most restless child occupied for a couple of hours - such is the breadth of the iPad’s functionality. What kind of brain invented this? So yes we are awed to realize, at
this moment of his passing, that such a man lived amongst us, so brilliant in his thinking, so compassionate and single-minded in his quest to benefit the world and so sweeping in the way he made his great creativity flow for all. Te products he designed were made to look pure, cast in pristine white, reflecting the clarity of his ZEN mind. And all achieved against a backdrop of trials we can only guess at. Steve never let on the pain he felt
FIRST He worked on products to safeguard Apple’s future. Blueprints for updated versions of the iPod, iPhone and Macbooks are in place. Steve Jobs also worked to finish iCloud and this will enable storage of music, photos and other documents remotely. Apple has announced there are at least four years worth of new products/models in the pipeline.
SECOND He fought to get plans approved for a spaceship-style head office in California - big enough to house 12,000 employees in Cupertino where the company presently has its offices.
THIRD Steve Jobs agreed to cooperate in the writing of an authorized Biography (due out on the 24th October) by Pulitzer Prize nominee and author Walter Isaacson granting 40 interviews in all. At the last interview, he explained to his children why “I wasn’t always there for them. I wanted my kids to know me, to understand what I did.” It is clear he wanted his biography to be the ultimate love letter to his family. Tis explains why he agreed to a completely open book despite living a famously private life.
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