This has got to be one of the greatest speech’s I have heard. Very inspiring. Jobs details his early college years, his firing from apple, and his fight with death. Stay hungry, stay foolish. Great line.
thanks to @j2scheck for showing me this.
That’s right.
While walking to class today, I had a pretty sad epiphany. I will be working for the rest of my life; constantly. As I approach the end of my academic life, I have been getting more and more detached from school and social life, and more integrated into the professional work lifestyle. Clients are becoming more available, I have become ever more skilled in my trade, and I find myself enjoying what I do far more than going to school. And its worthwhile. I see results from my web development, and I also have been receiving recommendations from previous clients happy with my work. I think its safe to say that I have started to make a name for myself.
But, this is the end. This is the last year that I can goof off and relax more than normal. Its sad to say the least, because I have some qualms with my current direction. Success is nice, but I feel like I now know how to make this transition while staying happy and relaxed.
I love what I do. Its just that simple. Most people go into a general discipline that they think they would like to work in, but that will most likely lead to unhappiness. You need to experiment! I switched my majors about 5 times. Here they are in order, so you can see the progression:
I mean come on! I thought it was only 5, but I guess I have changed my major 9 times! I consider this to be a good thing however, because i tested my tolerance to what I would like for four years, and finally settled on just doing philosophy to graduate and go into web development full time. My journey led me to web development, and after all of this exploring, I have strong cause to believe in my cause.
I will be in school for an extra year, but I really don’t care. You have all the time in the world to graduate, there is no point in sacrificing sleep and stress to graduate when everyone else does. When you graduate has no measure whatsoever in how successful you will be. I see too many people who are a mission from hell to graduate on time, and honestly they are unhappy. This also follows from the previous section in that you are working so hard to graduate at some date, that you never take a minute to explore other disciplines. This is what I believe causes so many people to eventually become what they worked so hard at becoming, but realize after all that work that they may be interested in something else. Such a common mistake.
I also never understand why people whose whole family’s members become a lawyer, feel that they should also become a lawyer. Think for yourself! You are not your parents, and honestly, there is no gene that you get from heredity that predisposes you for a particular discipline. Maybe you are good at math, but that doesn’t mean that you have to be specifically a mathematician. You could truly do anything in the science field. If this is you, you are limiting yourself so much, I beg you to just take a semester or two to just take classes outside of what your parents took, you are not them.
I know this post came out of nowhere and has nothing to do with the web, but every once in a while I will be posting more personal thoughts that I have. Hope you all don’t mind.
Evan
With the release of the new Palm Pre, Apple, Andriod supported phones, and no name brands are still in awe of just how Palm released this thing with not only no leaks, but also wow’ed us all with some “new-ness” as they Palm calls it.
While the keynote for the introduction of this phone was quite impressive, it left a lot of open ended questions. Here is what I, and you all, are wondering.
In comparison to the iPhone, the palm pre will have all of its apps built with HTML, CSS, and Javascript. But how can javascript be so powerful? If we look at the iPhone, it is built with Objective-C programming. Not an easy language to develop for, but still very powerful and reliable since it is all compiled code. Scripting languages are notorious for being slow with Object Oriented programming, but looking at the Palm keynote, it seemed that all their apps ran smoothly, and in some cases, smoother than the iPhone.
As it has been said, the Pre does not support gaming. Maybe in the future, but JS just doesn’t hold up well for intensive games like the iPhone. So that poses the question what about apps that are as intensive as games?
While it is definitely harder to develop apps for the iPhone than what it looks like for the Pre, the Pre’s app development with HTML CSS and JS should cause an explosion of apps to be developed for the phone. But that is actually a BAD thing. Apple’s process of screening apps, while it is usually something of annoyance, is good for quality control. This explosion of apps that comes from large amounts of developer’s, we need to have some kind of system in place to monitor the apps. Palm has not announced anything about this yet.
Ok, this one I am really really waiting to hear about. Will there be Flash support in the webkit browser? If Palm incorporates Flash they will have a significant lead over the other smart phones. Given that Palm said there is a processor in that little thing that can power a laptop, I would assume that Flash Lite is a possibility.
While the Palm Pre looks like a must have for most enthusiasts, the question must be asked what is the price point of the phone? It needs to be under $200 in order for the average consumer to even think about it. So far, I have read prices in the 300 and 400 dollar range, and that is just no-good. Palm, in order to win, you must take a hit on the price.
The one thing about the iPhone that I loved, was that it included very nice apps from both google and yahoo. Palm has not shared any information with us about having Google or Yahoo apps pre-built in. Now I understand what your thinking, who care as long as they have OEM apps that work. Well, its about marketing my friend. If Google or Yahoo advertise that they have their apps built FOR and ON the Pre, it will be instant press and credibility on the integrity of the phone.
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