When I first read about Steve Jobs and what I learned from him

Aditya Darekar
8 min readFeb 24, 2022

I recall reading about Steve Jobs for the first time when I was 14. Strangely, it wasn’t his Wikipedia page or the movie review of the biopic they had made on his life but rather a short excerpt from one of the chapters, dedicated to “Inventors and Visionaries”, from my Class 8 Moral Science textbook.

Sadly, I hadn’t paid much attention in class that day so I don’t remember every last line from it however the iconic Steve Jobs thinking pose picture and the quote “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” from the excerpt did stick in my head for the longest time possible (Only to realize later that the quote itself was not originally his). The quote always had a funny ring to it and always had me and my classmates cracking up as we deciphered its literal meaning — stay hungry during breaks and you will be foolish!

Fast Forward to 2020 and being stuck at home during lockdown had me slothfully installed on the sofa facing the TV and binging one movie after the other. This is when I came across the ‘Jobs’ biopic played by Ashton Kutcher. That was my first window into the fanatic world I fell into for Steve Jobs. What followed was the pursuit of learning more by binging endless videos on YouTube whose titles began with ‘Life of Steve Jobs…’, ‘Jobs in the Making…’, ‘The Story of how Apple started…’ and so on which was finally…

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Aditya Darekar

23 | IT Graduate | Tech Enthusiast | I love to write about Apple Tech and how I use it for leading a healthier, happier and productive life ⌚️💻📱