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Steve Jobs: Everything I Create Will Become Obsolete
Trailer for Steve Jobs: Visionary Entrepreneur.
Via Silicon Valley Historical Association:
Steve Jobs: Visionary Entrepreneur is a 60-minute documentary built around a 20-minute interview of Steve Jobs in 1994 that was conducted by the Silicon Valley Historical Association.
Steve Jobs was asked to give advice to young entrepreneurs who wanted to go out and start their own businesses. He talks about risk and the willingness to fail, the role of building illegal blue boxes prior to founding Apple Computer, and his philosophy on how to approach life.
FJP: We are all but sediment.
According to [80,000 Hours]’s view of ethics-as-impact, a do-gooder job only “does good” insofar as you are better at it than the person who would have filled the job otherwise. “This is the replaceability factor,” says MacAskill. “The difference between you and the person who would have been in your shoes.” If you’re fully replaceable, you are, quite literally, not making a difference.
“It was not just that they were taking the same job and feeling better about it, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and whistling. It was that they were DOING a different job … one said ‘I’m a healer. I create sterile spaces in the hospital. My role here is to do everything I can to promote the healing of the patients.’”
A Yale professor interviewed a group of hospital janitors about their job. Many of the workers griped about their responsibilities, but another group described the same job in completely different, completely positive terms. Amy Wrzesniewski calls this “job crafting”: Creating the work you want to do out of the work you’re assigned to do
Great article that puts meaningful work into perspective. Reminded me a lot of Cal Newport’s writings on his Study Hacks blog.
Case Study: Lung Cancer Alliance’s gorgeous logo paired with an innovative awareness campaign. Learn more about the campaign here.
Patrick Stewart hugs domestic-abuse survivor, tells of violence in his childhood
(Photo: Heather Skye / YouTube)
On television, he was the almost unflappable Captain Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” But Patrick Stewart was raised in a poor household with an abusive father, and the experience gave him the fire to work for such causes once he had the fame to make himself heard.
Amazing moment and important message. Totally started tearing up over lunch while watching this.
For fees that can exceed $1,000 a day per student, Training the Street, Wall Street Prep and other companies teach basic skills like spreadsheet building and database extraction.
“‘I just want someone who can really use Excel and PowerPoint,’ said one senior loan syndication banker at a European bank, describing his recent interviews of newly minted M.B.A.’s in New York.”
Fascinating look at the growing trend of Excel/financial modeling boot camp classes that prep new grads and young professionals for Wall Street.
Intuition Pumps – celebrated philosopher Daniel Dennett on the dignity and art-science of making mistakes.
