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    Jack,
    I have no problem with your success. You’ve earned your success; for the most part. The problem is, you wholesale ripped off my identity. Grand theft. I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. You are not just trying to be the next me, you are trying to be me. I’m already up to my ass with these Android bozos, but willing to go thermonuclear to right your wrong too. 

    Here are just a few examples.


    glasses

    Me   http://imgur.com/PeyuB
    You  http://imgur.com/djrZW

    getting fired

    Me   I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach. Playboy, Sept ‘87
    You  It was like being punched in the stomach. Vanity Fair, April ‘11

    no one has done this before

    Me   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrS7JQv-zgY#t=55m48s
    You  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40i21TBC020#t=48m20s

    surprise and delight

    Me  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUH0U2wEQCc#t=29m4s
    You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40i21TBC020#t=24m32s

    magical

    Me  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrS7JQv-zgY#t=46m10
    You Payment is another form of communication..but it’s never felt magical. Vanity Fair, April ‘11

    we’re just people running this company

    Me   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrS7JQv-zgY#t=11m44s
    You  http://www.livestream.com/cbsstartup @52:20

    proud of the things we haven’t done

    Me   http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0803/gallery.jobsqna.fortune/6.html
    You  https://twitter.com/jack/status/168477686484836352

    beatles

    Me   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVCB1vJWQIE
    You  http://www.twylah.com/jack/topics/beatles

    architect

    Me   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bohlin
    You  https://twitter.com/jack/status/222396467816579073

    put it on the shelf

    Me   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrS7JQv-zgY#t=37m50s
    You  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjD30MxxRik#t=1m33s

    turns out

    Me   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMyZwhzy5hE#t=8m4s
    You  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40i21TBC020#t=34m50s

    eastern influence

    Me  http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2011-11-02/steve-jobs-faith-buddhism/51049772/1
    You  https://twitter.com/jack/status/231458676349734912,   http://imgur.com/NgNIX

    editor in chief

    Me   http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/steve-jobs-really-apple-editor-chief-184857874.html
    You  http://imgur.com/uAVbg

    the comma

    Me   http://www.cultofmac.com/128532/apple-to-htc-theres-no-comma-in-our-name-doofus-humor/
    You  https://squareup.com/letters/onward


    Catch my drift? Stop trying to be me. Stop trying to be the next me. Be the first Jack Dorsey. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living my life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the result of my thinking.


    Steve

    Sent from the iClouds in a galaxy far, far away….

    • 9 months ago
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