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>>> 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
by pkdpic 4y ago
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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
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Just when I thought Ashton Kutcher and Michael Fassbender had taught me everything I needed to know about this random billionaire I come across this... Well played internet...
Also is this real or not?
- solveit 4y agoIt's real. https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/1567739003650048000?t=x-SeYKQWQkaFNH7AIp3biw&s=19 https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/1567739003650048000?t=x-...
- pkdpic 4y agoSweet, thank you Tim Cook :^)
- markdown 4y ago[flagged]
- system2 4y agoSick people don't make the best decisions especially while they are dying.
- usednet 4y agoHe had multiple years and plenty of time when he was sound of mind.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- 6stringmerc 4y agoMost people listen to medical experts instead of hippie crystal therapy like Steve chose, and when that didn’t work, he used his wealth and privilege to establish residency in a state where he could jump in line for a liver transplant, got it, was too far gone and died anyway. Wasted a perfectly good liver on that sociopath.
- pembrook 4y agoFortunately for us, nobody will ever care enough to scrutinize and pick apart the stupid/selfish things we did in our lives. Don’t fall for the great man fallacy, nor its opposite, the villain fallacy. It’s just oversimplified media narratives. Most people are complicated.
- informal007 4y agoIs this Steve Jobs's word?
- seibelj 4y agoAlso extremely strange is he received a liver transplant much quicker than average, in a state far from where he lived, which later received a $40mil anonymous donation https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2015/11/12/hospital-where-jobs-received-transplant-given-40m.html https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2015/11/12/hospital-where-jobs-rece...
- kioleanu 4y agoAh yes, the old organ switcharoo.
- silisili 4y agoI'm honestly not sure why this was never more complained about. He ignored medical advice, that's fine I guess, his right. But he effectively stole a liver from someone and essentially wasted it. Must be nice to have FU money.
- rlt 4y agoGiven something like 40% of liver transplants go to people with alcohol related diseases this doesn’t bother me too much.
- gamjQZnHT53AMa 4y agoI don't understand your point. Is it "fuck people with addiction issues"?
- chongli 4y agoI’d rather be alive, living my non-rich, non-famous life than to have FU money and be dead.
- carlmr 4y agoI think the point is that someone who is non-rich and non-famous might also be non-alive because of this missing liver.
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- epistasis 4y agoGiven the complexities of the Whipple procedure, I'm not sure I would go through with it either, honestly. I'm not a doctor, but I've dealt with a looot of oncologists, and with people at the end of life from cancer. Most cancer docs would choose to go through with far less cancer treatments than their patients typically choose.
- phonon 4y agoHis tumor was caught early and easily operable (it was a rare type of pancreatic cancer that was). No doctor would have suggested he ignore the surgical option for diet etc, changes. By the time he changed his mind/it got worse, his options were much more limited.
- 6stringmerc 4y agoEven then he had options only the 1% can do - move to a state to cut in line. Still didn’t work. I think he was just trying to hang in long enough to see his $200M yacht get finished and in the water. Oops.
- epistasis 4y ago> easily operable I could be wrong, but I thought the operation was a Whipple procedure, and the concern I lay out is that the operation is not easy.
- refurb 4y agoWell of course doctors would - they’re not going through it so don’t have all the emotional baggage the patients do.
- Cederfjard 4y agoI think you misunderstand - they're saying that the doctors would elect to receive less treatments than the average patient if they themselves were sick - presumably because they are well aware of the low likelihood of success and the brutality of going through it. I'm not a physician, either, but this rings true with experiences from my own life, were people I knew who were doctors decided early to stop treatment and let the disease run its course (and subsequently passed away).
- dvfjsdhgfv 4y ago> because I knew better. It's not because he knew better, but because he didn't like it. And frankly, who can blame him? The survival rate from pancreatic cancer is quite low, as is the median life expectancy. Moreover, he had the misfortune of getting a more aggressive variant. And the treatment is quite heavy. Nevertheless, if it was me, everything considered, I'd still try to take my chances. And I believe most people would do the same. It's a pity, because there is still some chance he could still be around.
- avereveard 4y agoThe survival rate increase dramatically with wealth Also pancreatic cancer that was likely comorbid with his dietary choices, to begin with, so it's not just about the treatment of choice.
- me_me_me 4y agoIt read like pile of self serving bs, given how he treated others around him. Judge people by actions not words.
- cuteboy19 4y agoNo subject line?
- pkdpic 4y agoOmg you're right, what? Come on Steve!
- visarga 4y agoThat reads deep, but then it might also be an iPad keyboard test since it's dated in 2010, the same year iPad was introduced.
- kolme 4y agoThose are not mutually exclusive. Also now that I think about it, that might have been a good product test. To see if the tools get out of the way and let the creativity flow.
- suyash 4y agoHere is Steve Job's video that came much decades before and shared the same thoughts: https://stevejobsarchive.com/international-design-conference-in-aspen https://stevejobsarchive.com/international-design-conference...
- yreg 4y agoHuh, 27 years apart and it's almost verbatim. Is it taken from some existing text or was it some personal mantra (for lack of a better word) he created?
- samstave 4y agoYeah, but you still made the trillion pounds of e-waste from everything you did do, and profitted off of jony's shitty fucking life-cycle understanding of anything plastic... Fuck Jobs worship. He DID CREATE a ton of shit that the world doesnt need in the environment and by claiming that appl is some beacon of the most amazing design - nope. If appl was the bastion for thought on product design, I wouldnt have ~20 broken iphones, some of which went through many screens, nor would I have a fuck-ton-pil of shitty designed cables that cost $30 a piece, or a lot more of lame chinese knock-offs that they tried to block the device from recognizing, nor would there be a trillion tons of defunct plastic phone cases all over the world... Your company is THE REASON SUICIDE NETS EXIST at foxcon jony is a guy who literally removed any sort of lanyard hook from the phone -- when literally every phone in asia at the time of the iphone launch had one, AND there was an entire market for lanyard styles and accessories - because the lanyard "interfered with his vision" -- which CLEARLY his vision was FUCK TON of broken screens for appl profit. If you dont know the history.... fuck that. Should I fucking go on? They are an environmental psychopath trying to punch you in the face with pollution and telling you to love them and give them money. (the tech is not the question, its their response to the tech's impact (FFS I had a recalled macbook explode into fire in my bed and they refused to honor the FUCKING RECALL)
- PraetorianGourd 4y agoWas any of this rant typed on an Apple product? Just because a little drunk and thus quite feisty.
- samstave 4y agoNO It was not. --- EDIT, It as typed on an HP OMEN -- and through my 30+ years in tech I have had a lot of bad things to say about HP in the middlings -- (HP/COMPAQ had the best support mid '90s to very early 2000's (then the Carlie debacle bullshit happened) -- but the HP support right now... is stellar (at least in my experience currently). No tech company is beyond reproach.
- fuckHNtho 4y ago
- abdabab 4y ago> I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being. This almost sounds like a Buddhist vow.
- sigmoid10 4y agoWasn't he a Buddhist?