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Steve Jobs emails himself
From: Steve Jobs To: Steve Jobs Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM
I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.
I do not make any of my own clothing.
I speak a language I did not invent or refine.
I did not discover the mathematics I use.
I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.
I am moved by music I did not create myself.
When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.
I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.
I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.
Sent from my iPad
“The world’s papers will be full of obituaries of the queen today. This is the life of Elizabeth Windsor.”
What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns.
Restrictions on social contact stemmed disease spread, but weighing up the ultimate costs and benefits of lockdown measures is a challenge.
Richard Branson:
“All businesses are an idea or service that make somebody else’s life better. If you make other people’s life better, you’ll capture that value in return.”
I truly struggle to understand why we - as a global community - are so weird about immigration. That because of the genetic lottery you were born in a certain fenced area so you mainly just stay there for most of your life.
And we all fight to maintain that level of normalcy.
I don’t want normal, I want magic.
Becoming a crypto bro just got easier
Sunday morning at Bondi
It’s amazing to me that the least valued, least used, and most uncool social network in the world is constantly the most important.
Louis L’Amour:
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”
Proud to announce that I’ve been appointed as a noted person to dispose of any currencies with former heads of state on them. Please mail all currencies to my PO Box and I will dispose of the currency ethically and properly.
I miss old-school Steve Jobs era Apple product launches. Steve would say that they designed some cool tech, we’d all agree and cheer. Tim Cook’s Apple pads it out with marketing BS “products that are essential to our daily lives and that work seamlessly together”.
What’s the most you’ve paid for an Old Fashioned?
Finally the Pringles people have removed the unnecessary lids. If once you pop you can’t stop, why have plastic lids?
An opera I’d go to
You can say what you want about the downfall of a Sydney institution like Bread & Circus after being sold but I can’t trust a cafe that takes my order on an iPad with a 30 pin dock connector.
The Withers’ in Wonderland (at The Grounds of Alexandria)
Experiencing Sydney through the eyes and words of a three year old is marvellous. She looks at this building and calls it a castle and supposes there could be a princess at the top. I said there’s more than likely a few princesses inside.
