More thought on "what should I do with my life?" This time from Fast Company magazine. Good stuff. You make yourself happy with what you have. Wanting more stuff doesn't bring you happiness. What's the perfect job, anyway? I know that I sure don't want to be an elevator operator sitting in a elevator pushing one of four buttons all my life. I wanna be involved in the game. That's what's fun. Standing in Times Square with your best friend is infinitely more fun than watching it on TV.
What makes me passionate? Technology. Technology continues to change our lives faster than any other industry. When I rode the subway, what was I observing? I noticed that a large number of people had cell phones or Palm Pilots/PocketPC kinds of things. I could imagine the day, coming soon, where 802.11 would be in every Subway station and millions of people were using Tablets and portable computers to communicate with each other.
Oh, another observation? One of the people we stayed with got taken by the famous three-card-monte. She felt really stupid. They played on her psychology. She's studying to be a doctor and is pretty smart (a lot smarter than I am). Proves that anyone can be taken by an occassional scam. But, what if she had a portable computer hooked to Google? She may have discovered this article which shows why you can't win.
See, information +is+ power. Here, she didn't have the right information to be able to walk away. But, if she did, she would have made the right choice. It's my dream to see the day when every human has access to information that would improve their lives. We're not even close to getting there. Just ask the average Chinese or Iraqi citizen if they have the skills, equipment, and permission to search Google. [The Scobleizer Weblog]
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