How Steve Jobs went from hopeless flailing to giving a talk for the ages | Philip Elmer‑DeWitt

How Steve Jobs turned his biggest problem into his biggest opportunity - The Churning

Steve Jobs was an imperfect human being, just like the rest of us. But during his short life he managed to achieve more of the things that mattered most to him than most of us do. During his famous 2005 Stanford commencement address, Steve told us how he achieved this. He talked about how the biggest challenge of his life also turned out to be his biggest opportunity. When he was 30 years old, the company he had co-founded and worked in all his …

How Steve Jobs went from hopeless flailing to giving a talk for the ages | Philip Elmer‑DeWitt

From Steven Levy's "How Steve Jobs Wrote the Greatest Commencement Speech Ever" posted Thursday by Wired.