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| Steve Jobs | |
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| “Email from Steve jobs.” (1 December 2025) | |
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| Portal | Builders & Operators |
| Posts | 79 |
| Retweets | 1,702 |
| Likes | 17,294 |
| First post | 21 April 2018 |
| Latest post | 19 April 2026 |
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Jobs shows up through a handful of lessons GritCult keeps returning to. The most viral by far is ask for help, treated as a foundational unlock rather than a soft skill, alongside storytelling as power, self-managing employees and craftsmanship over ideas.
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The core clip has Jobs saying he never found anybody who didn't want to help him if he asked, which GritCult calls one of the best clips from Steve Jobs [1] and returns to more than once. Jobs traces it back to what changed his life at 12 years old, the realisation that most people, asked directly, will actually help [2]. GritCult treats this less as networking advice and more as a psychological unlock most men never make.
The secondary theme is narrative as power: the most powerful person in the world is the storyteller [3], a line he posted in 2022 and again in 2025 [4]. His management philosophy gets cited approvingly too: the best employees manage themselves [5], and most managers are, in Jobs' own words, bozos [6]. It is a worldview that matches GritCult's broader allergy to unnecessary hierarchy.
Even Jobs' private habits get mined for method: writing emails to himself as a thinking tool, including one written shortly before his death [7]. Then there is Jobs' modest account of his own work, "all I did was recognise patterns and get people together to finish projects" [8], which GritCult posts without adding a word, as he does with most of his Jobs material: the quote or clip, a short label, nothing more.
Recurring themes
- asking for help as an unlock, not a weakness
- storytelling as the actual seat of power
- self-managing employees over hierarchy
- writing to oneself as a thinking tool
- recognising patterns as the real skill behind genius
Notable post
The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 1,009 retweets:
Steve Jobs on asking people for helpGRITCULT on X, 3 August 2025
Selected posts
All 79 posts in the archive about Steve Jobs, ranked by retweets. Select a column heading to sort.
| Date | Retweets | Likes | Post | Media | Source |
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| 3 August 2025 | 1,009 | 10,863 | Steve Jobs on asking people for help |  | View |
| 15 December 2025 | 138 | 1,287 | "ive never found anybody that didnt want to help me if i asked them for help" one of the best clips from steve jobs. |  | View |
| 5 August 2023 | 64 | 375 | Steve Jobs on what changed his life at 12 years old... Do not be afraid to ask for help. |  | View |
| 1 December 2025 | 51 | 645 | Email from Steve jobs. | | View |
| 2 February 2023 | 35 | 144 | Steve Jobs talking about the secret of life... and the major realisation he had. |  | View |
| 21 November 2022 | 33 | 169 | Steve Jobs said, “The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller.” | View | |
| 10 November 2023 | 27 | 224 | Steve jobs on leadership… best employees manage themselves. |  | View |
| 4 September 2025 | 26 | 260 | The story teller is the most important person in the world. - Steve Jobs. | View | |
| 3 February 2023 | 25 | 98 | Steve jobs 1997 speech, touches on how to get much clearer. |  | View |
| 3 December 2023 | 21 | 182 | Steve jobs on why most managers are bozos |  | View |
| 29 April 2023 | 19 | 172 | Steve jobs used to write emails to himself on a regular basis He wrote this shortly before passing |  | View |
| 30 October 2022 | 15 | 85 | “All I did was recognise patterns and get people together to finish projects” Steve Jobs. | View | |
| 28 August 2020 | 14 | 171 | Ask yourselves. Why is Steve Jobs a martyr and Jeff bezos seen as a villain? One died at their peak. Simple. | View | |
| 5 February 2024 | 14 | 123 | Steve jobs on manifesting and changing the world. |  | View |
| 13 January 2024 | 13 | 142 | Steve jobs on manifesting and changing the world. |  | View |
| 29 July 2020 | 12 | 20 | Good morning. From Steve Jobs: For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” | View | |
| 18 June 2023 | 11 | 112 | Nootropics forums and even Steve jobs talk about how psychedelics can be used to increase learning rates. If you want to wildly change your personality and adapt to a stressor. Psychedelics can help. | View | |
| 4 February 2023 | 11 | 44 | A great answer from Steve Jobs here about business strategy & innovation tbh. Schools a male karen on why it all comes down to usability over technology, not the other way around. |  | View |
| 5 September 2023 | 10 | 95 | steve jobs on start ups |  | View |
| 19 June 2022 | 8 | 99 | Main reason why Zelensky keeps wearing the same@clothes. Primarily a green t shirt Is from his days as an actor. It’s personal branding. Building up a character by keeping as much as possible the same. Steve jobs did the same thing. As did ghandi etc | View | |
| 29 March 2021 | 8 | 54 | STEVE JOBS ONCE SAID. YOU SHOULDNT MANAGE PEOPLE. BUT RATHER YOU SHOULD GIVE THEM A VISION. | View | |
| 28 November 2023 | 8 | 47 | Tim cook on what made steve jobs a revolutionary. |  | View |
| 3 December 2020 | 8 | 35 | "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while." - Steve Jobs | View | |
| 11 August 2023 | 7 | 123 | It is a shame that new product reveals do not have flair or charisma like steve jobs used to have, you can tell he really believed in the product and vision... |  | View |
| 28 May 2023 | 7 | 122 | Steve jobs on marketing. |  | View |
| 24 November 2023 | 7 | 72 | "I want to put a ding in the universe." — Steve Jobs | View | |
| 23 April 2024 | 7 | 52 | Start up ideas are worthless. - what mattered to steve jobs is craftsmanship. |  | View |
| 20 July 2022 | 7 | 42 | having a clean desk is a psy op some of the most creative and important thinkers in history? all had a messy desk 1. einstein 2. steve jobs 3. twain 4. the zuck |  | View |
| 21 October 2018 | 7 | 30 | @curaffairs increasing population = increasing brain power = more scientists more ideas more products more competition more innovation more positive feedback loops more elon musks more steve jobs more visions of the future being built consumer wins = humanity wins spiritual capitalism | View | |
| 29 July 2023 | 6 | 76 | Q: Is a good idea enough? Here is Steve Jobs' take on what it takes to go from a good idea to a great products: craftsmanship. |  | View |
| 13 June 2021 | 6 | 47 | ASK YOURSELVES. WHY IS STEVE JOBS A MARTYR AND JEFF BEZOS SEEN AS A VILLAIN? ONE DIED AT THEIR PEAK. SIMPLE. | View | |
| 22 August 2021 | 6 | 25 | BEING THE RICHEST MAN IN THE CEMETERY DOESN’T MATTER TO ME … GOING TO BED AT NIGHT SAYING WE’VE DONE SOMETHING WONDERFUL … THAT’S WHAT MATTERS TO ME. - STEVE JOBS | View | |
| 4 November 2025 | 5 | 171 | Steve Jobs was worth 256m when he was 25 years old. | View | |
| 9 September 2023 | 5 | 84 | a poor person and a billionaire can have the same phone this is what tech innovation actually looks like, thanks to apple and steve jobs i feel like tesla will be the same bringing cutting edge technology not only to billionaires but to everyone innovation raises the floor | View | |
| 17 October 2022 | 5 | 56 | Ai joe rogan interviews ai Steve Jobs. Isn’t technology beautiful. |  | View |
| 18 May 2021 | 4 | 46 | I’M THE ONLY PERSON I KNOW THAT’S LOST A QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS IN ONE YEAR…. IT’S VERY CHARACTER-BUILDING. - STEVE JOBS | View | |
| 9 August 2023 | 4 | 40 | Steve Jobs also talked about AI here is what he predicted, pretty crazy shit. |  | View |
| 27 May 2021 | 4 | 36 | THE JOURNEY IS THE REWARD. - STEVE JOBS | View | |
| 8 May 2021 | 3 | 79 | ASK YOURSELVES. WHY IS STEVE JOBS A MARTYR AND JEFF BEZOS SEEN AS A VILLAIN? ONE DIED AT THEIR PEAK. SIMPLE. | View | |
| 1 December 2024 | 3 | 69 | “Intuitive understanding and consciousness is more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis.” Steve Jobs | View | |
| 10 November 2023 | 3 | 31 | Steve jobs on leadership… best employees manage themselves. |  | View |
| 24 December 2024 | 2 | 169 | Every year; between christmas and new years, i like to read 1 book a day this year i will try to read: bronze age mindset - bap the cultured thug - bowden steve jobs - biography - already reading trump: art of the deal elon musk - biography titan - rockefeller biography | View | |
| 19 April 2026 | 2 | 81 | one of the most aggressive adn deadly forms of cancer. this is what steve jobs died of on track to being cured 10 years after his death insane |  | View |
| 24 January 2024 | 2 | 53 | “All of us need to be on guard against arrogance, which knocks at the door whenever you’re successful.” ~ Steve Jobs | View | |
| 2 November 2025 | 2 | 21 | @bennpeifert Nope. Steve jobs was the same. It’s pretty common in these types of fringe communities. | View | |
| 7 August 2023 | 2 | 15 | every aspect and interaction of the user technology interface is something you need think deeply and philosophically about. just like steve jobs did. read this old write up of the apple desktop |  | View |
| 1 February 2019 | 2 | 11 | creation and the concept of creation is divine capitalism is the ideology that creates, it is what create an abundance of beauty. the Pythagorean cult of steve jobs, in awe of the marriage of beauty and technology and art | View | |
| 4 October 2018 | 2 | 5 | Capitalist as artist, may be an outraged meme. With the notion of hero worship and brand evangelicalism. Steve jobs and Apple The capitalist can be seen as a religious messiah, each with his own message and in group and out group of devotee fans | View | |
| 19 August 2018 | 2 | 2 | "Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works " - Steve Jobs | View | |
| 19 January 2024 | 1 | 56 | Steve jobs was not a nice person. He was one of the biggest opinionated micromanagers. If you want to be like Steve jobs. You have to be willing to be hated for a while. |  | View |
| 8 December 2023 | 1 | 30 | The motivation for steve jobs to build a trillion dollar company |  | View |
| 1 December 2023 | 1 | 18 | “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.” – Steve Jobs | View | |
| 24 July 2018 | 1 | 12 | note to self : “Life Was Made Up By People No Smarter Than You” - Steve Jobs | View | |
| 4 December 2023 | 1 | 9 | “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.” ― Steve Jobs | View | |
| 24 August 2021 | 1 | 7 | THE JOURNEY IS THE REWARD. - STEVE JOBS | View | |
| 12 May 2018 | 1 | 6 | why are the aesthetics of new burgeoning technology so bland didnt we learn from steve jobs how important equipment was as tools for humans tools reside in your brain as much as they do in reality arent beautiful cars a source of pride ? why has materialism been shunned ? |  | View |
| 17 August 2018 | 1 | 2 | "They got into how they wanted to treat individuals and conduct their corporate life. And it was very idealistic in my opinion." Steve Jobs reflecting on his experience at HP non-ergodic meme imo (too unstable => built in obsalesence) meme of ethical company = high entropy meme | View | |
| 21 October 2018 | 1 | 2 | You have missed my point. My point is relativity. Of tribes. Can do the same with Elon musk or Steve Jobs. Ive been to the Marxist house in London and they hang up pictures of Marx and Lenin on the wall. Hero worship is dangerous. See mimesis. | View | |
| 21 November 2018 | 1 | 1 | @slatermaus @TellYourSonThis Canelo got done for doping. Also see Lance Armstrong. Steve Jobs called doing LSD one of his most important points in his life. Rappers are drug connoisseurs I've shifted so much modafinil et al on uni campuses. I could've opened a pharmacy. Used to advise optimal solutions | View | |
| 3 April 2024 | 0 | 27 | Steve jobs may have been lucky to have been raised in Silicon Valley But Silicon Valley itself was an amalgamation of luck and a syzygy of aligning stars of various industries. Tech, military and education. For my future kids what’s the next Silicon Valley to raise kids? | View | |
| 12 January 2024 | 0 | 18 | Steve Jobs on AI here what he predicted is some pretty crazy shit. |  | View |
| 19 August 2025 | 0 | 18 | fake news. steve jobs was 5'7 too |  | View |
| 16 July 2021 | 0 | 13 | "When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, it was weeks away from bankruptcy—a classic wartime scenario. He needed everyone to move with precision and follow his exact plan; there was no room for individual creativity outside of the core mission" ive seen many crypto companies die | View | |
| 4 June 2022 | 0 | 13 | Search is like a librarian showing u results from a query - Steve jobs. It seems that the librarians have now become ideological and lots of books have gone missing. | View | |
| 29 September 2020 | 0 | 12 | now 3G is when shit started to really take off and the world has changed in such a manner it is hard to conceptualise a time before it. it was so big... that steve jobs named an iphone after the technology. welcome to mobile internet browsing, and thus internet applications. |  | View |
| 21 July 2023 | 0 | 9 | Steve jobs was a designer. | View | |
| 15 October 2021 | 0 | 7 | ASK YOURSELVES. WHY IS STEVE JOBS A MARTYR AND JEFF BEZOS SEEN AS A VILLAIN? ONE DIED AT THEIR PEAK. SIMPLE. | View | |
| 28 July 2021 | 0 | 6 | MOST PEOPLE NEVER KNOW WHAT THEY WANT - STEVE JOBS AND MOST PEOPLE NEVER UNDERSTAND WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE THIS IS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE CANNOT HANDLE IT WELL | View | |
| 16 March 2025 | 0 | 6 | @paulg @waitbutwhy Can’t we make an ai Steve jobs | View | |
| 9 August 2021 | 0 | 5 | INNOVATION DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN A LEADER AND A FOLLOWER. - STEVE JOBS | View | |
| 24 May 2019 | 0 | 3 | @Grimhood This is being reactivated. Steve Jobs accredited his success to LSD. Faustian sacrifice is sometimes worth it. If some aren't worthy. They aren't worthy. It is what it is. | View | |
| 21 October 2018 | 0 | 2 | @HomemMtBrasa @curaffairs *Criticises Steve Jobs off an iPhone* Okay matey according to you Steve and Elon have no talent | View | |
| 10 August 2020 | 0 | 2 | @3CKSTR @0x49fa98 @erin_nerung okay dear enlightened one, replicate the success of steve jobs .... science is based on replication right? | View | |
| 25 October 2020 | 0 | 2 | @AJA_Cortes @KingReignsRoman just looks horrible, terrible aesthetics. steve jobs refused to wear a mask as it was badly designed | View | |
| 5 November 2020 | 0 | 2 | @PascalGrosz @MySuccessTheory steve jobs | View | |
| 19 January 2024 | 0 | 1 | Steve jobs was not a nice person. He was one of the most opinionated micromanagers. If you want to be like Steve jobs. You have to be willing to be hated for a while. |  | View |
| 24 December 2024 | 0 | 1 | @akaSpaceHombre i can finish the steve jobs one today. bam isnt that long, cultured thug is a series of short essays biographies -jobs, trump, elon and titan, can be rotated as they follow similar structures. | View | |
| 21 April 2018 | 0 | 0 | @theonetruehurt trade banana for "X" trade "X" for anything i dont think there is difference because you have to realise you have to provide some sort of value to survive. didnt steve jobs attend LA hare krishnas and do LSD trips n travel in india too ? he was a model capitalist | View | |
| 28 July 2018 | 0 | 0 | @HideousWorking @alexandtherest its the story of jesus and steve jobs mimesis - heros journey they were both hated by the masses at one point before reaching redemption and salvation salvation will probably be when he helps humanity become multiplanetary related to heros journey | View |
History
GritCult first posted about Steve Jobs on 21 April 2018, and most recently on 19 April 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 79 times, most often in 2023 (22 posts).
See also
References
- ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (15 December 2025).
ive never found anybody that didnt want to help me if i asked them for help... one of the best clips from steve jobs.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (5 August 2023).
Steve Jobs on what changed his life at 12 years old... Do not be afraid to ask for help.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (21 November 2022).
Steve Jobs said, "The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller."
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (4 September 2025).
The story teller is the most important person in the world. - Steve Jobs.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (10 November 2023).
Steve jobs on leadership… best employees manage themselves.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (3 December 2023).
Steve jobs on why most managers are bozos
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (29 April 2023).
Steve jobs used to write emails to himself on a regular basis... He wrote this shortly before passing
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 October 2022).
"All I did was recognise patterns and get people together to finish projects" Steve Jobs.
X.
External links
- Posts about Steve Jobs by GRITCULT on X
- Steve Jobs on Wikipedia
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