Find What You Love

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. (Steve Jobs via Kathy Sierra)

Here's what my gut feel is telling me.  RSS, Weblogs, WiKi, Chat, Podcasts (but less so).
The Big Corp needs all this stuff but doesn't realise it yet, so anyone hawking it to them is fighting an uphill battle right now.  But it will happen eventually, and just like being in the right place at the right time with say mobile phones, someone is going to do very well out of it.

I just want to be with people who talk and use the technology, not just for the sake of it, but because it works.  It helps people communicate better.  I'm sick of the Dilbert world.  You don't get too much Dilbert in the world of RSS, Weblogs, WiKis, Chat, and Podcasts, mainly because there are no cubicles!

I'm not a corporate person.  I don't take readily to the politics.  The pretending.  The Emperor having no clothes.  And if I see something as wrong I won't let it go, or bury my head in the sand and take the money.

I've never been a great Steve Jobs fan, from what I've read about him, too much ego, but I love that for once, someone famous has said....

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
  Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I recently looked through all the business cards, and contacts I have in Outlook, and it was immediately clear to me who to call.  Just a gut feel.  Including some people I haven't had contact with in over a year.

And more time with Georgie and Jay.
Go read the whole Steve Jobs commencement address at Stanford.

Comments

[Lee Wilkins]

here here, I totally agree, currently what I am in the process of doing