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Today is Steve Jobs’ birthday (video)

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“Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories…”

 

As I did when he was still running Apple, I’d like to celebrate Steve Jobs’ life and work by re-posting the most personal public speech this intensely private man ever made: His commencement address to the Stanford University class of 2005.

If you haven’t seen it—or haven’t heard it recently—I give you Steve Jobs on life, death and calligraphy.

“Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories…”

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc&w=840&h=473]

Here’s the link. The transcript is available here.

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