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18 October 2005
Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:45:00 GMT How Apple Does Itvia Kjell Olsen2408 days agoGo apple go. I’ve pledged allegiance to you ever since I’ve had an allegiance to pledge. You could rule the world way better then google.
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15 June 2005
Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:29:00 GMT 'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs saysvia Kjell Olsen2533 days agoSteve Jobs recent commencement address at Stanford. Also in stereo
After six months, I couldn’t see the value in [college]. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
Being a drop-in sounds like lots of fun – I really hate the idea of going to college this fall, but decided to suck it up and try it out before giving up on it.
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 didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that your are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
I really love reading commencement addresses. When someone tries to give out the bits that they’ve learned their life, their secrets, their motivations.
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06 June 2005
Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:47:41 GMT WWDC 2005 - Live Coverage of Keynote || The Mac Observervia Kjell Olsen2542 days agoWow. Wow. Wow.
Rosetta will allow PowerPC compiled apps to work on an Intel Mac. It’s completely transparent, and does not require a separate emulation environment.
I don’t know whether to love or to hate apple – on one hand, intel could probably make chips just as well as IBM – but to get my hopes up like that for a G5 powerbook… And then just snatching it back from me! I don’t know what I’ll do now, I was looking to get a laptop for this summer, but I don’t want a G4 now that apple has an entirely new processor.
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08 April 2005
Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:31:55 GMT Travel jobs | Ask MetaFiltervia Kjell Olsen2602 days agoA few ways to look into paying your way to a nice long vacation.
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29 January 2005
Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:06:28 GMT The Steve Jobs NextSTEP 3.0 demovia Kjell Olsen2670 days agoWow – OSX came from a very impressive OS. I’d never actually seen NextStep before this – but again, wow! A lot of the coolest stuff in OSX right now, and a lot of the stuff that is going to be in tiger, and hopefully a lot that will make it’s debut further down the road.
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