alvinsj |
remarks on what i observe. personal opinion. |
It’s a good result, I think much because of developer friends out there helping me to spread the words on twitter/hackernews. I’m fortunate, thanks guys.
It’s not because im proud of anything, but credibility.cc is something special to me. I’m really happy and encouraged by this result today. After…
Sometimes back I watched a youtube video of a talk from this professor named Clay Christensen describing business matter like “how milkshake gets your job done.” a theory that make sense from different perspective on how things fit together to make an idea works.
I thought he’s a good speaker, and somehow I got linked to a Tedx video with him featured on the topic “how will you measure your life?”
(i read a blogpost by hbr regarding to @aaronsw here, looking at the background of the author(James Allworth), co author a book called “how will you measure your life?”, and google returned the result of my search with this Tedx video)
this video is triggering thoughts again. Although the last part might not be as easy to accept(when he mentioned about God), still it is still somehow making sense and trigger my inner feeling/thoughts.
all along, I never want to be a fan of fame-seeker/achievement-hungry/money-centered. I might has shifted/gotten influenced a little bit sometimes, but I tried hard to stay sane again and again. because deep down my heart, I know this will not work for my life.
this video stimulates the thoughts on how will i measure my life? as if there is a certain happiness I want to achieve. is it a highly skilled me, business-able me, family-man me or something else? I look at the mirror again and rethink how I am fit in these different lenses. I would give it a five minutes, or longer.
Some post relating to Clay Christensen by Jason Fried:
someone can’t be taught until they’re ready to learn
What are questions? http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3225-what-are-questions
while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished.
Give it five minutes mins. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes
I laughed at myself just now. (as i always observe interesting fact looking at myself from third person’s perspective)
because I found a difference on my behaviours.
I remember I was so reluctant to learn when the “artificial intelligence” course started last year (offered by coursera). yet now comparing to the hackdesign.org course I just signed up recently, I got excited waiting for the week schedule come, and I am now so engrossed when watching the film, reading the articles. I thought I am a quite passionate programmer, it shouldn’t happen.
trust me, love is a emotion. do what motivates you is much more easier than what does not. maybe some will say new thing is always looked interesting, but certainly not everything, not something you keep thinking of doing, this is proven for me.
hmm.. maybe this contributes to the idea that: when a factory worker doesn’t really like their job, then they shifted their love to money. so, money motivates them, they can still work hard, but this misconception somehow drove the natural behaviour.
he has contributed something we wished we could be part of it.
he has done the real work to make sure what he thinks and what he does, is in sync.
he made a choice, which most people in the system never dare to challenge in that extend.
yet he made it again, somehow he lives in people heart.
smart, young, and ambitious genius.
