[extropy-chat] Why Australians will never be prosperous

[Samantha Atkins]

Thanks for these two links.  I really enjoyed the transcript.  If  
first met Steve and Steve when they were a couple of semi-hippie  
tecnology freaks like many of the people I was hanging with at the  
itme.  They were toting this homebrew computer in a wood box.  At the  
time I was having a lot of trouble telling the real visionaries from  
the just plained obsessed but not going anywhere folks.  So I went to  
back to school instead of attempting to join the fledgling company.   
I don't remember if they were even talking about a company then.  But  
they were really passionate.

I see stuff about love - loving what you are doing and passion which  
I guess is a type of hunger sort of.  That I know is very real and  
critical.  In hiring situations I always pass on people that have no  
passion.  The passion doesn't have to even be in what they are being  
interviewed for.   But without that spark that sometimes bursts into  
huge creativity  something great  is much less likely to come from  
the  team.   Those wonderful periods of passionate creative fire are  
one of the yummiest and most desirable things in life.  But yeah, he  
does end with the catchy "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish".

I could kick myself for the times I have "settled" in my career.  I  
won't do that any more.

He gets more than a little deathist in many places.  Yes, death and  
its [until now] relatively quick inevitability can be used in  
advantages ways; most anything can be with a bit of skill.  But this  
hardly makes death something wonderful or "the best invention of  
Life".   We can do much better.   We can renew ourselves without it.   
I am sick of hearing excuses and apologetics for death.



- samantha

On Jul 9, 2005, at 9:44 PM, Amara Graps wrote:

>> Really?  Where did you derive this conclusion?  What type of  
>> "hunger"?  I have been part of this particular scene for a couple  
>> of decades now.  I certainly look for a level of "hunger"if you will.
>>
>
> Samantha,
>
> Whether it is true or not, perhaps it is a fashionable concept
> presently..
> Didn't Steve Jobs say this at Stanford recently? I keep seeing
> references in the news to this 'hunger' aspect of entrepreneurs.
>
> http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/grad-061505.html
> http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505
>
> Amara
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