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Though a long time coming, this is a sad day.
Unsurprisingly, the internet is a-twitter with the news of Steve’s passing - and I suspect it will be for some time. One striking thing about it though - and I noticed this following his resignation, too - is peoples’ individual desire to reflect/mourn the moment in their own way, but also together. There’s a really unique sense of collective loss and shared experience that I truly can’t remember having witnessed before, at least to this degree. That’s something.
I guess the other thing that strikes me as I scroll through all your favorite Steve quotes and photos; and rewatch the Stanford commencement speech for what must be the hundredth time, is the man’s stubborn, unstinting quest to put a dent in the universe — to leave behind a better world. And so there’s this feeling, too, of unexpected optimism — that maybe when a person like this leaves the world, the collective weight of loss is mitigated by the taking up of an immense mantle. That this is a man and a moment in time worth remembering; that in the truest sense of the phrase he changed the world, and that surely we can do it again.
I hope everyone enjoys celebrating his fully-lived, beautiful life by swapping Steve stories and quotes and photos — but then, back to work please. This thing isn’t going to dent itself.
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
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