Steve Jobs just died. His Stanford commencement speech is already legendary, but I’ll add one more link to it. Call me a “fanboy” or a crowd-follower for liking it; it really is worth listening to.

This is a poignant reminder to all of us that we may have less time than we think we do. Society, with this expressed most prominently in the early rounds of the career game, expects young people to deny their mortality– to delay creative expression and fulfilling work to a distant, prosperous future that might never come. Jobs never denied his mortality. He did what he loved. This is the only reasonable approach because, in the end, mortality refuses to be denied.