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Steve Wozniak
1950–Present · Co-founder of Apple, Engineer of the Apple I & II
He hand-built the Apple I and Apple II, the machines that launched the personal computer revolution. Jobs got the fame, the Fortune covers, the movie. Woz got the legacy. He gave away most of his stock to early Apple employees because he thought it was the right thing to do. He still shows up at tech events, still teaches kids to code, still builds things for the love of building. The spotlight never interested him. The craft did. A Grithosian knows that the work is the legacy, not the applause.
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VIR-III-0018“I'm carrying guilt for something I did years ago.”DTH-XII-0022“I'm thinking about what I actually want written on my gravestone.”DTH-X-0045“I'm retiring and for the first time the days are fully mine.”VER-XIV-0037“Leadership wants me to gut my team with AI and dress it up as innovation.”VER-XIV-0038“Half my team quietly fakes their work with AI and gets the same credit I earn.”VIR-I-0028“I finally told the doctor the whole truth and got real help.”VIR-III-0034“I'm getting older and I can look back on a mostly honest life.”VER-XIII-0054“I built a phone-free morning and now the whole day starts as mine.”VIR-I-0067“I told my father the real truth about us while he could still hear it.”VIR-III-0051“I helped someone in a real way and never told a soul.”VIR-III-0066“I found cash no one saw me pick up and I turned it in.”