and you get to contribute your little layer of sedimentary rock to make the mountain that much higher, but no one on the surface will, unless they have x-ray vision, will see your sediment. >> in the end, i was left with the same question with which i began this journey. why did so many strangers weep for steve jobs? it's too simple to say it was because he gave us products we love without asking why we loved them the way we do. it's too simple even to conclude that we loved them because they connect us to a wider world and the people in our lives that are far away. because these machines isolate us, too. perhaps the contradictory nature of our experience with these gadgets, there is the contractions of jobs himself. he was an artist who saw perfection, but could never find peace.