Inside Apple founder Steve Jobs’ emotional email to himself before death

APPLE founder Steve Jobs wrote himself an emotional poetic email as he was dying with cancer, recent archive material reveals.

The late iPhone pioneer talks about feeling “helplessness” little over a year before his passing.

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The email is dated September 2, 2010.

Jobs tragically died of pancreatic cancer on October 5, 2011, at the age of 56.

He opens the email, saying: “I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow

“I did not breed or perfect the seeds.

“I do not make any of my own clothing.

“I speak a language I did not invent or refine.

“I did not discover the mathematics I use.”

The special message was released by his widow, Laurene Powell Jobs earlier this year.

It features as the first page on a Steve Jobs archive website dedicated to his legacy.

Powell Jobs said at a launch in September that the archive is “rooted in Steve’s long-held notion that once you understand that outside of the natural world everything in the built environment and all the systems that govern our life on the planet were built and designed by other humans.

“Once you have that insight, you understand that you as a human can change it, can prod it, can perhaps interrogate it and stretch it.

“In that way, human progress happens.”

The entire archive can be viewed at stevejobsarchive.com.

The full email reads:

From: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com
To: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com
Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM

I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow
I did not breed or perfect the seeds.

I do not make any of my own clothing.

I speak a language I did not invent or refine.

I did not discover the mathematics I use.

I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive
of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.

I am moved by music I did not create myself.

When I needed medical attention, I was helpless
to help myself survive.

I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor,
object oriented programming, or most of the technology
I work with.

I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am
totally dependent on them for my life and well being.
Sent from my iPad

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