the top three most awesome things about steve jobs

Steve Jobs was my hero, the entrepreneur and person I most admired:

1. He invented the concept of awesome: things were either "insanely great" or "complete crap" and the things that he created were more often the former than the latter.

2. He made design a legitimate business strategy: he led the world to more blockbuster products than any another entrepreneur in history save Leonardo DaVinci (the personal computer, the powerbook, "toy story", the iPod, iTunes , the iPhone, etc.)

3. He understood the intimate and necessary connection between passion and death: http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html

I regret never meeting him.