Email Sent By Steve Jobs To Himself In 2010 Resurfaces On X (image-twitter/LimitlessLife3)
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wrote a letter to himself in 2010 just a year before he died. The letter has now resurfaced on social media platforms.
The 2010 email was released by his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs after his death as part of the Steve Jobs Archive – an online repository launched by Powell. Many users have reshared the letter appreciating the philosophical and poetic usages in the heart whelming and thought provoking letter.
The email dated September 2, 2010, starts with Apple co-founder saying “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 the clothing,” he continues. “I speak a language I did invent or refine”. He further adds that “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”. In an emotional line he then conveys his helplessness, “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”.
He concluded his letter, “I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being”.
Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He survived it for eight years before he died at the age of 56 on October 5, 2011. He along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne co-founded Apple Inc on 1 April 1976 in Los Altos, California, United States.
