Never imagined it would be this hard to write a post on him. When I read the news yesterday, I first confirmed it on many other sites and refreshed all the pages, just hoping that probably all of them were reporting wrong. Of course I can’t say this was too surprising knowing the number of surgeries he had gone through and the latest reports of his health but it still was a shocker. As I am writing this post today, two days after Steve Jobs passed, after all those emotions have calmed down, I am still speechless. If I had written this post yesterday, I know it would have come out totally different. It would have probably been much harder yesterday for me to come up with words but even today I don’t have the right words!
If you think I am being overly dramatic, it’s not just me! When I think of it now, I understand why there was such a huge reaction to his death. What is it that made Steve Jobs stand out from the pack? Generally, people don’t even know who are the CEO’s of the companies they like or even what the heck do they do. But Steve was different. Doesn’t matter if you liked Apple’s products or not (or if you liked them but just couldn’t buy them due them being out of your pocket and hence your hatred towards them) but you knew who and what Steve Jobs was. What was it that makes him so special? There are a lot of his quotes doing the rounds but my most favorite among them is this:
Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains