<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257467526403371115</id><updated>2011-12-29T06:45:51.401-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon</title><subtitle type='html'>random thoughts</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>TT Magic</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257467526403371115.post-427423401521538024</id><published>2011-12-28T13:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T13:32:00.528-08:00</updated><title type='text'>HCP career network</title><content type='html'>This is an interesting site that has some job openings. Not really looking for any jobs now but just in case (you never know!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hcp.com/career-network/"&gt;HCP Career Network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3257467526403371115-427423401521538024?l=tiger1974.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/feeds/427423401521538024/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/12/hcp-career-network.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/427423401521538024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/427423401521538024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/12/hcp-career-network.html' title='HCP career network'/><author><name>TT Magic</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257467526403371115.post-3790866245343162385</id><published>2011-12-28T12:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T12:40:48.247-08:00</updated><title type='text'>feeling quite pissed off today</title><content type='html'>for some reason my wife treated me like a piece of crap. I really have no idea why she can be so nice to strangers and while at the same time has no respect and is not polite to the one she should respect the most.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as a family everyone really should stand up for each other and defend each other, and my wife does not understand that, despite the fact that i have explained multiple times: treat people with respect and you will get many things in return.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i am really puzzled here and i have tried very hard to maintain the relationship but it is not really looking up.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3257467526403371115-3790866245343162385?l=tiger1974.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/feeds/3790866245343162385/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/12/feeling-quite-pissed-off-today.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/3790866245343162385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/3790866245343162385'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/12/feeling-quite-pissed-off-today.html' title='feeling quite pissed off today'/><author><name>TT Magic</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257467526403371115.post-3731818404552737616</id><published>2011-12-28T07:30:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T07:31:13.695-08:00</updated><title type='text'>golden wisdom</title><content type='html'>golden wisdom&lt;p&gt;just do it&lt;p&gt;purpose of life is 2 enjoy each moment fully&lt;p&gt;career is about doing what u love&lt;p&gt;best job is not a job, it is something u love&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3257467526403371115-3731818404552737616?l=tiger1974.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/feeds/3731818404552737616/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/12/golden-wisdom.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/3731818404552737616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/3731818404552737616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/12/golden-wisdom.html' title='golden wisdom'/><author><name>TT Magic</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257467526403371115.post-5978419821397353889</id><published>2011-12-28T07:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T07:30:33.581-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New year resolution</title><content type='html'>&gt; Get a big white board&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Body build&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Eat fruits and vege&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Work while standing and walking&lt;br /&gt;&gt; get a job&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3257467526403371115-5978419821397353889?l=tiger1974.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/feeds/5978419821397353889/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-year-resolution.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/5978419821397353889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/5978419821397353889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-year-resolution.html' title='New year resolution'/><author><name>TT Magic</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257467526403371115.post-1802356556613239444</id><published>2011-12-28T07:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T07:28:43.592-08:00</updated><title type='text'>how to embrace moments with young kids</title><content type='html'>yes, sometimes it can get frustrating with young kids. for example, late at night, when you are yearning for some wonderful sleep, the little one starts to scream and ask for daddy, and she won't settle for anything less.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30 minutes later, the young one is still crying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Embrace these momements. These wonderful times, many years later, you would pay everything to have this experience again!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;love...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some random ideas to be creative when playing with kids:&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Do some Yoga when playing with kids on the mat.&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Learn new instruments when teaching kids to play new ones&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3257467526403371115-1802356556613239444?l=tiger1974.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/feeds/1802356556613239444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-embrace-moments-with-young-kids.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/1802356556613239444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/1802356556613239444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-embrace-moments-with-young-kids.html' title='how to embrace moments with young kids'/><author><name>TT Magic</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257467526403371115.post-3103830443115514472</id><published>2011-12-28T07:24:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T07:24:44.640-08:00</updated><title type='text'>qihu 360 notes</title><content type='html'>qihu 360&lt;p&gt;450 crafts &lt;p&gt;360 safe&lt;br&gt;many failures&lt;br&gt;360. free&lt;br&gt;250 - 110&lt;p&gt;startup&lt;br&gt;haigui&lt;p&gt;env diff&lt;p&gt;mit 95&lt;p&gt;env haigui&lt;p&gt;biggest loser&lt;p&gt;fu zhi&lt;p&gt;bu xiao xi&lt;p&gt;timing&lt;p&gt;the next wave&lt;p&gt;enterprise &lt;p&gt;zhong xing&lt;p&gt;consumer. ren qi&lt;p&gt;big deal. &lt;p&gt;qihu faces customers&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;user experience&lt;p&gt;baidu&lt;p&gt;kill&lt;p&gt;user. first&lt;p&gt;people&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;109 billion loss&lt;p&gt;user first&lt;p&gt;zhai shu &lt;p&gt;patience&lt;p&gt;gov&lt;p&gt;huai guan&lt;p&gt;defeat &lt;p&gt;jian chi&lt;p&gt;security&lt;p&gt;service. daily&lt;p&gt;gong an. sha du&lt;p&gt;vision. vc&lt;p&gt;personal assistant&lt;p&gt;lersonal assistant&lt;p&gt;has no mention of money&lt;p&gt;with money no focus&lt;p&gt;laser kill one finger&lt;p&gt;focus&lt;p&gt;do one thing&lt;p&gt;xin tai&lt;p&gt;maopu&lt;p&gt;follow user needs &lt;br&gt;cha jian&lt;br&gt;liumang ran jian&lt;p&gt;fan cha jian&lt;p&gt;best free security&lt;p&gt;always user first&lt;p&gt;1 function laser. &lt;p&gt;focus is key&lt;p&gt;hate buddy&lt;p&gt;koushui zhan&lt;p&gt;billion users&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;find paths&lt;p&gt;7th mantou&lt;p&gt;trojian $$&lt;p&gt;sha du&lt;p&gt;security is free&lt;p&gt;360 protection&lt;p&gt;future is free &lt;br&gt;service&lt;p&gt;jiang &lt;p&gt;gong&lt;p&gt;focus crf&lt;p&gt;ren&lt;br&gt; di revunue&lt;p&gt;user loyality&lt;p&gt;qq. tengxu. jishi tong&lt;p&gt;free sells&lt;p&gt;cloud side. &lt;p&gt;it is difficul to make things simple&lt;p&gt;simple tweet&lt;p&gt;he focus on user&lt;p&gt;user problem&lt;p&gt;360 portal&lt;p&gt;zhou qihong&lt;p&gt;teng xu&lt;p&gt;nobody knows&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;must have a vision&lt;p&gt;click thankeyboard entry  voice&lt;br&gt;siri&lt;p&gt;join a big company&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:zhy@360.cn"&gt;zhy@360.cn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;dan guru&lt;br&gt;cloudccomputing&lt;p&gt;lianpi hou fearless&lt;p&gt;dnova@ hcp. com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3257467526403371115-3103830443115514472?l=tiger1974.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/feeds/3103830443115514472/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/12/qihu-360-notes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/3103830443115514472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/3103830443115514472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/12/qihu-360-notes.html' title='qihu 360 notes'/><author><name>TT Magic</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257467526403371115.post-6121992020888784880</id><published>2011-10-24T18:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-24T18:31:19.539-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Very nice snipets of Steve Jobs Biography</title><content type='html'>"Steve Jobs,' the biography of the late tech visionary that went on sale Monday, has already produced plenty of headlines: How Jobs met his birth father without knowing who he was, how he swore bitter revenge on Google for developing its competing Android system, and how he waited too long after his cancer diagnosis to get surgery that might have saved him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the 656-page book by hand-picked biographer Walter Isaacson also contains a wealth of smaller, but no less telling, details about the brilliant but difficult Apple co-founder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taken together, they build an illuminating portrait of a charismatic, complicated figure who could inspire people one minute and demean them the next. Even on their own, many of these snippets are still fascinating glimpses into an extraordinary life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The CNN Tech team has been busy flipping through our copies of the book. Here are some of the more interesting nuggets we've found, in chronological order (we're still reading, so we'll add more as we go):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Childhood and early years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Jobs' wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, encouraged Isaacson to be honest about Jobs' failings. "You shouldn't whitewash it," she told him. "He's good at spin, but he also has a remarkable story, and I'd like to see that it's all told truthfully."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steve Jobs' take on faith, afterlife &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biographer: Steve Jobs avoided surgery -- Jobs' birth mother insisted he be adopted by college graduates. The couple who had initially agreed to adopt Jobs in 1955 -- a lawyer and his wife -- backed out because they wanted a girl. So Jobs was placed instead with Paul Jobs, a high school dropout and mechanic, and his wife, Clara, a bookkeeper. When Jobs' birth mother found out, she refused to sign the adoption papers for weeks and only relented after extracting a pledge that the Jobses fund a savings account to pay for the boy's college education.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Jobs saw his first computer terminal as a boy when his father brought him to a NASA research center not far from where the family lived. "I fell totally in love with it," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Jobs' famous rebellious streak first manifested itself in elementary school, where he often pulled pranks and once set off an explosive under his teacher's chair. He felt bored at not being challenged by his studies. In fourth grade, he was tested and scored on a high-school sophomore level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Jobs was introduced to Steve Wozniak in high school by a mutual friend, and despite their age difference (Wozniak was five years older), the two bonded over their love of electronics and practical jokes. "I was a little more mature than my years, and he was a little less mature than his, so it evened out," Jobs said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Jobs and Wozniak built a "Blue Box," a device that allowed them to make long-distance calls for free by fooling the networks' routing switches. The two pranksters used the box to call the Vatican, with Wozniak pretending to be Henry Kissinger and asking to speak to the pope. They spoke to several Vatican officials but never actually got the pope on the line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Although it was private and more expensive than his parents could afford, Jobs insisted on applying to Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His parents drove him to the school, but he refused to let them come on campus or even to say goodbye to them. "It's one of the things in life I really feel ashamed about," Jobs said later. "I didn't want anyone to know I had parents. I wanted to be like an orphan. ..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- After Jobs dropped out of Reed, he talked his way into a $5-an-hour job at Atari, the video game company, because the chief engineer "saw something in him." Jobs believed at the time that his fruit- and vegetable-heavy diet would prevent body odor -- a theory that proved flawed. After Jobs' co-workers complained about his hygiene, the CEO asked him to work the night shift, where he would be alone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Jobs quit Atari to go on a seven-month spiritual quest to India, where he contracted dysentery, had his long hair shaved off by a Hindu holy man and failed to find the inner calm he was seeking. His appearance changed so radically during his pilgrimage that his parents did not recognize him when they picked him up at the airport upon his return.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; "Steve Jobs" is a candid, unvarnished biography of the late Apple co-founder.-- Jobs returned to Atari, where he and Wozniak collaborated on their first project: an early version of the hit video game "Breakout." But Jobs did not tell Wozniak they would be paid a bonus if they designed the game using fewer than 50 computer chips. Wozniak did it with 45 chips, but Jobs pocketed the entire bonus -- a fact his partner didn't find out for years. "I wish he had just been honest," Wozniak said later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The origins of Apple&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- When it came time to name their new computer company, Jobs and Wozniak considered names like Matrix, Executek and Personal Computers Inc. before Jobs, who was eating a fruit diet and helping out at an apple farm, suggested Apple. "It sounded fun, spirited and not intimidating." he said. "Plus it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- On April 1, 1976, Jobs, Wozniak and a third investor, former Atari engineer Ron Wayne, drew up the partnership agreement for Apple and began assembling computers in Jobs' parents garage. Wayne chipped in 10% but soon got cold feet and withdrew 11 days later. Had he stayed on, his stake at the end of 2010 would have been worth about $2.6 billion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Jobs chose the Apple logo, an apple with a bite taken out of it, because he thought the other design option, a whole apple, looked too much like a cherry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- When it came time to assign employee badge numbers, Apple's first president, Mike Scott, gave Wozniak No. 1 and Jobs No. 2. Jobs was furious and demanded to be No. 1, but Scott refused. Finally, they reached a compromise: Jobs would be badge No. 0.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leaving Apple for NeXT and Pixar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- In 1985, fresh off his ouster as CEO of Apple, Jobs showcased his feisty side on a trip to the then-Soviet Union, where the Apple II was going on sale. First, in a meeting at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, he bristled at the suggestion that there were laws against sharing computer technology with the Soviets. Later, after praising Leon Trotsky, the Soviet revolutionary, Jobs was informed by the KGB agent escorting him that Trotsky was no longer considered "a great man." Jobs then went to deliver a speech to Russian computer students, one he began by heaping praise on Trotsky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Jobs paid designer Paul Rand $100,000 to create a logo for his new computer company, NeXT. It went so well that Rand agreed to design a personal calling card for Jobs, which led to a "lengthy and heated disagreement" about the placement of the period after the "P" in "Steven P. Jobs." Rand placed it to the right of the "P." Jobs thought it should be nudged further left, under the "P's" curve. In the end, Jobs won.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- An early backer of NeXT was Ross Perot, the billionaire Texan. He watched a PBS segment on Jobs and immediately called offering to invest. Jobs returned the call a week later. "I pick the jockeys, and the jockeys pick the horses and ride them," Perot told Jobs. "You guys are the ones I'm betting on, so you figure it out." Perot gave him $20 million.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates had an uneasy relationship. "Part of the problem," Isaacson writes, "was that the rival titans were congenitally unable to be deferential to each other." When Gates first visited NeXT headquarters in Palo Alto, Jobs kept him waiting 30 minutes, even though Gates could see through a glass wall that he was having casual conversations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Digital animation was originally just to be a sideline for Pixar, the business Jobs bought from George Lucas for $5 million in 1985. The short movies' main purpose was to show off the hardware and software used to create them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- For a few years beginning in 1982, Jobs, then 27, was romantically involved with folk legend Joan Baez, who was 41. "He was both romantic and afraid to be romantic," she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- In the early 1980s, Jobs, with the help of a private investigator, found his biological parents. But he would not contact his birth mother until after Clara Jobs, the woman who raised him, died in 1986. By contrast, Jobs had no interest in meeting his birth father, who he felt had abandoned his birth mother and sister. It would turn out that his birth father, Abdulfattah Jandali, owned a Syrian restaurant in Silicon Valley that Jobs had patronized several times, and that Jobs had met him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- After NeXT was bought by Apple, Jobs acted as de facto CEO until September 16, 1997, when he became "iCEO" -- an abbreviation that first signified "interim" but would eventually mean "indefinite."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apple's rebound&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- When Apple unveiled iTunes and its innovative digital music store in 2001, Jim Allchin, who ran the Windows division for Microsoft then, sent an e-mail to four fellow executives saying: "We were smoked. How did they get the music companies to go along?" At the time, iTunes and the iPod only worked on Mac computers. Apple execs argued that the iPod should interface with Windows, too, and Jobs was alone in opposing that proposition. When he finally relented, he insisted that Apple make iTunes for Windows as well, so the company could control more of the experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- At one point during the development of the iPod Mini, which was immensely popular and catapulted Apple's portable music players into the mainstream, Jobs considered killing the product because it was smaller in size and storage capacity, yet sold for the same price. He didn't quite understand the device's appeal among workout fiends because he didn't do sports.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- During the creation of the iPod Shuffle, Apple engineers kept shrinking the device's screen in prototypes until Jobs had the idea to get rid of the screen altogether.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- The only time Jobs could recall being tongue-tied was upon meeting one of his heroes, Bob Dylan, in 2004. Dylan invited Jobs to his hotel before a Bay Area concert, and they talked for two hours. Jobs was "really nervous" and afraid the aging Dylan would disappoint him, but "he was as sharp as a tack."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Jobs was the first person outside of U2 to get a pre-release copy of the band's 2004 album, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." Bono wanted to be in an iPod commercial and wanted Apple to make a black iPod. Jobs told him, "We've tried other colors than white, and they don't work." He soon relented. Bono later compared Apple's creativity to that of a rock band, and said, "the lead singer is Steve Jobs."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Famed industrial designer Jony Ive was tasked with coming up with the successor to the candy-color translucent iMac, which was the bestselling desktop computer for some time. He wanted to develop a flat-screen monitor with the components integrated into the display unit. Jobs did not like that idea, and he invited Ive over to his backyard at home to brainstorm. The sunflowers in the garden maintained by Powell Jobs inspired the design of the iMac, which had a display connected to a dome base by a metal stem. When computer parts became compact enough a few years later, Ive's initial concept was used in the models that replaced the sunflower iMac.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3257467526403371115-6121992020888784880?l=tiger1974.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/feeds/6121992020888784880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/10/very-nice-snipets-of-steve-jobs.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/6121992020888784880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/6121992020888784880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/10/very-nice-snipets-of-steve-jobs.html' title='Very nice snipets of Steve Jobs Biography'/><author><name>TT Magic</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257467526403371115.post-5868508769887982450</id><published>2011-10-16T04:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T04:39:19.515-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Notes on innovation</title><content type='html'>difficulty creates opportunity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;out of clutter, find simplicity&lt;br /&gt;from discord, find harmony&lt;br /&gt;in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;crisis creates opportunity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;innovation is not about market timing. It is about creating something that fulfills an unmet need&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;reinvent what people want&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;keep your finger on the pulse of pop culture&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;learn the game and start to play&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is never too late to learn&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change - charles darwin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;small shifts can disrupt the market&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;even the clever must adapt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your focus should not be on protecting what you have, but rather on adapting to the next big thing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;don't become a boiled frog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;find a way to make sense of all the noise&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by understanding the chaos that is the cutting edge, you can identify when the world will change&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;accept the the world never return to normal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you don't need to have everything figured out&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;there is comfort in chaos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the only things slowing you down are the rules you need to break&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the pursuit of opportunity will require you to think differently and break the rules that paralyze change&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your perspective is the way you look at the future and the problems that you are trying to solve. Your perspective determines your destiny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what are you trying to do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;accomplishments blinds us to the urgency of reinvention&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;don't be seduced by complacency&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is too easy to remain focused on a giant stagnant business, too easy to get boilded like a frog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;be cautious not to let the failure of others reinforce inaction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;assume tremendous potential in rival ideas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when you evaluate ideas, you need to look beyond the initial imperfections&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as a big player, it is never too late to get into the game&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;avoid retreating to your comfort zone!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;becoming breakthrough requires commitment to new frontiers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;question rational thought&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;prudent managers ignore small opportunities they focus on big ideas and end up getting boiled like frogs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if you are big, think samll&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if you are small, think big&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;chase the right dream, define the right goal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;be wary of strengths; success leads to complacency&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a simple gambling fund can be one of the most effective way to tolerate failure&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;make failure a part of every day, fail and win&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;celebrate failure and you will liberate innovation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;inspire customers to champion your brand&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;get uncomfortable&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;stop telling people what to do&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fight as if you are right, listen as if you are wrong&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;destroy the perks of seniority&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;there is no point innovating if you think you already know the answer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;constantly seek to be unique&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;don't pursue mediocricity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;go faster&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when you move at a speed that makes you uncomfortable, you eliminate wasteful steps&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have to play to win&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;know when to give up, nothing is precious&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;convey everything in 7 words or less&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every morning, write a list of things that need to be done. and do them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3257467526403371115-5868508769887982450?l=tiger1974.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/feeds/5868508769887982450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/10/notes-on-innovation.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/5868508769887982450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/5868508769887982450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/10/notes-on-innovation.html' title='Notes on innovation'/><author><name>TT Magic</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257467526403371115.post-5669770655867091144</id><published>2011-10-10T08:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T08:40:42.734-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nice quotes from thoughful leaders</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 28pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;Steve:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 28pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 28pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;FOLLOW YOUR HEART DON'T SETTLE&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 28pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;STAY HUNGRY STAY FOOLISH&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;Live every day like last day - Steve Jobs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;Live simple, remove unnecessary objects&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;Say NO.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;Andy:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;Navigating technology development is not an easy task.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Anticipating threats and uncovering opportunities are the keys to success. It’s all about inflection points. Suddenly the game changes. And only the paranoid survive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Hd_ptbiPoXM?version=3"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Hd_ptbiPoXM?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3257467526403371115-5669770655867091144?l=tiger1974.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/feeds/5669770655867091144/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/10/nice-quotes-from-thoughful-leaders.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/5669770655867091144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/5669770655867091144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/10/nice-quotes-from-thoughful-leaders.html' title='Nice quotes from thoughful leaders'/><author><name>TT Magic</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257467526403371115.post-5556316122562073505</id><published>2011-10-10T07:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T07:10:07.086-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Follow your inner voice</title><content type='html'>It is amazing that buddism and commercial success can co-exist in the rare case of Steve Jobs.&lt;br /&gt;Buddism is about harmony, is about not fighting/competiting, rather, to follow the natural flow. Steve Jobs is a minimalist, and in buddism he found his soul. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very interesting to me personally. In my young age, I was also down that path and questioned myself why go after money and fame and, in the end, everything is just illusion. You are still naked. When you leave this world, nothing can follow you, even your favorite treasure. My interest, is really the harmony with life, with surrounding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then there is strong pulling force from everybody else to force me go after money and fame. In the end, no matter how big an individual is, he/she is only a little dust in the vast universe and occupies an instant on the time axis in a forever eternity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Follow your inner voice, follow the voice that is guiding you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes you have to stay away from any disturbance, keep yourself clean, reduce all noise, to find that inner voice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Treat everyday like the last day in your life, ask yourself how you want to spend your day. That helps you find what is really really important to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Tiger1974&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3257467526403371115-5556316122562073505?l=tiger1974.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/feeds/5556316122562073505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/10/follow-your-inner-voice.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/5556316122562073505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3257467526403371115/posts/default/5556316122562073505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiger1974.blogspot.com/2011/10/follow-your-inner-voice.html' title='Follow your inner voice'/><author><name>TT Magic</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257467526403371115.post-3395450055330290885</id><published>2011-10-10T07:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T07:01:03.666-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A tribute to Steve Jobs - my favorite speech</title><content type='html'>Steve Job's speech at 2005 Stanford commencement, Youtube video is also available. For a person that guarded his private life this is a rare occasion that he opened up about what he believed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.&lt;br /&gt;The first story is about connecting the dots.&lt;br /&gt;I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?&lt;br /&gt;It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.&lt;br /&gt;And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. 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.&lt;br /&gt;It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:&lt;br /&gt;Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.&lt;br /&gt;None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. 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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;My second story is about love and loss.&lt;br /&gt;I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.&lt;br /&gt;I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, &lt;em&gt;Toy Story&lt;/em&gt;, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.&lt;br /&gt;I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.&lt;br /&gt;My third story is about death.&lt;br /&gt;When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, 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.&lt;br /&gt;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 you 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.&lt;br /&gt;About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.&lt;br /&gt;I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.&lt;br /&gt;This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:&lt;br /&gt;No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.&lt;br /&gt;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 others' 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.&lt;br /&gt;When I was young, there was an amazing publication called &lt;em&gt;The Whole Earth Catalog&lt;/em&gt;, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.&lt;br /&gt;Stewart and his team put out several issues of &lt;em&gt;The Whole Earth Catalog&lt;/em&gt;, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.&lt;br /&gt;Stay Hungry. 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