God? What is this God talk? After he died I read he had been a Buddhist. That must be where he gets that on off switch analogy. Nirvana ain’t suddenly so compelling when you are facing it and you are Steve Jobs. Sounds a bit like a no atheists in foxholes moment.
“After he died I read he had been a Buddhist”
Yeh, he was big on eastern mysticism/religions.
“Nirvana ain’t suddenly so compelling when you are facing it and you are Steve Jobs. Sounds a bit like a no atheists in foxholes moment.”
Waitwaitwait. We’re attacking Buddhism here because why?
My reaction to all the Steve Jobs philosophy articles is, very nice but I’ve heard it all before.
It is not deeply profound to use your inevitable death as motivation, to hope for an afterlife, to have dropped acid in the 60’s, to have “discovered” Eastern religion.
I’m not anti-Jobs but he’s no more profound than The Beatles.
We will never know if he received the gift of eternal life as he was dying. What surprised me was that he was raised as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.