1 year agoCue the YouTube version:
My take: There'll be a lot of Steve Jobs tributes today. This one, straight from the mothership, will be hard to beat.
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Wayne Gretzky
( another Great ‘crazy one’)
asymco dot com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-didnt/
I remember reading the piece when Horace first published it 10 years ago, but all credit for bringing it back to the forefront goes to Roman Meliska, who tweeted the link that was retweeted by Horace. It’s classy – and a classic!