Understandably by Bill Murphy Jr.

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Everything is inevitable in retrospect. (Agree?) Also, 7 other things.

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Oct 01, 2021
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I have one more thing to say this week about the late Steve Jobs, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of his passing, mostly because I hope it will prompt a really good comments section.

I reused yesterday’s blank canvas photo so that I would have something on which to include today’s calligraphy version of “Understandably.”

I’ve been working on a separate article for Inc.com about him that will run this weekend. I’ll link to it here on Monday. Today’s newsletter sort of fell out of my research and thinking about that article, and onto the rhetorical floor.

It goes like this. Jobs never graduated from college, but he did attend Reed College in Oregon; he only lasted a short while before dropping out in 1972.

However, instead of heading home after he was no longer officially enrolled, he stuck around for another 18 months. He slept on friends’ floors, returned Coke bottles for the deposits to get some money, and “dropped in” on classes that interested him.

One of those classes was calligra…

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