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Steve Jobs had it right

I was on the dog field the other day, and the topic was words added to the English language over the last few years, particularly if they’ve been helpful. I offered a few which worked for me:

Then someone at the park offered up a word that none of us knew: Simp.

We had no idea where to start. Was it a play on “sympathetic?” The woman offering the word was also uncertain, but she’d heard it a lot. When I went home, I looked simp up in the Urban Dictionary and found,

That didn’t sound so bad to me, but then my son gave me the real meaning — in terms of how it is actually used. He said,

Ok, now I got the hang of simp — a sycophant follower — and I doubt I will have reason to use it.

When I got home and checked my email, I saw the quote below from Steve Jobs in my inbox:

This quote would always speak to me, especially after my conversations regarding “simp.” I have appreciated Steve Jobs for building an intuitive computer that made technology accessible to the masses, but in this quote, he did something more.

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