I Forgot My Mantra is Scott Jackson's webtumblespacelog.

I don’t have a Steve story.

However, I did have the opportunity to see the guy in action, in what would no less turn out to be his last Apple keynote. This shitty, thirty-seconds-long video snippet from WWDC 2011 is probably of value to no-one but me — it’s a dark room, the stage is too far away to really see anything, and the footage is shaky as hell. But I thought I’d upload and share it anyway. It’s my one connection to the man that’s behind almost everything that I do. It’s my one piece of evidence that I got to see Steve Jobs, the world’s greatest presenter, in the flesh.

I don’t have any other photos or videos from Steve’s presentation. After I recorded that video, I put down my phone, packed up my camera, and decided to just be there. Live in the moment, or whatever, right? I stopped documenting and just watched, enthralled as Steve emceed the event and, eventually, introduced iCloud himself.

I put the camera down at the start of the keynote and tried to drink in as much of it as I could. Who knows how many more times I’ll have the chance to be sitting here, to experience this, I thought.

Now, I know.