”Steve Jobs’ Apple empire is now worth 100 billion dollars.”
It said in the Metro newspaper’s heading, in bold type across a double-page spread.
Ironically, I was sitting in the Stoke Newington branch of Wetherspoons, not some cool, tech-hipster cafe in Mountain View, California.
The buzz was visceral reading that article, a feeling spoke to me in a flash “Maybe I could be like him?”.
I was a broke, 25-year-old, socially anxious, self-employed web designer who hated talking to clients and managed to get by on email correspondence only. This was in 2007, just as Facebook was in its infancy and before people lost their attention spans in the short video era.
I just want to say that it’s absolutely good to dream, but I feel that we are all told we can be anything we want these days. That said, the keyword is WANT. You…
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