Since when I was a little kid I loved superheroes. Spiderman, The X-men and others have inspired me to look beyond my petty self and be a better person. I looked up to them and envied their ability to deal with tough challenges and keep faith and courage in difficult situations. They had cool powers too. Over time as I grew older and a bit more experienced I slowly started to move towards having real life heroes. My parents come to my mind but there were others.

At some point I learned about Apple, Steve Jobs and his keynotes. At first I was not an Apple fan, nor owned any of its products. I am from the generation of people who got to know Apple from the iPod. Once I owned one – I fell in love with it and started following the company. Over the years I came to learn more about Steve, his vision, his values and his darker side from stories I read online. I guess I fell for his reality distortion field. I treasured his no bullshit attitude, his righteous approach to dealing with things, his passion for technology and what it can do for the world. I started believing he does have super powers too. He became my hero.

The thing you have to know about Steve is that he had the uncanny skill to make this reality distortion field reality. He did not sit back and wait for his vision to come to him, he made it happen. There is a lesson to be learned from that. Truth be told – there are fewer and fewer like him around and now more than ever we could have used more of him.

Stay hungry, stay foolish. Thank you Steve!