I've tried hard but I can't resist it.I thought of writing about my passion for Apple products, about the overwhelming level of innovation Apple seems to possess and about how utterly, completely and staggeringly cool Apple products are. But everyone else has done that already.And anyway, I was beginning to get a little overwhelmed by the sheer level of nauseating hero worship the tech world was giving him.
My problem is that I don't think Steve was a hero and I don't think he saw himself as heroic either. What Steve Jobs was so good at was leading an incredibly talented team of people. I think that real heroes are slightly different. All of my heroes are people who fought, often alone, and against their peers to achieve things. Heroes like Churchill, Gandhi and Mandela all fought against their own people as much as they did their opponents.Churchill fought hard in Britain to keep his nation fighting the Nazis, Mandela fought to achieve reconciliation rather than the (frankly understandable) desire for retribution and Gandhi was one of the few voices against violence during the partition of India.
