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Stanford University | ‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says
Steve Jobs of Apple gave the commencement speech at Stanford and talked about why he dropped out and still attended college. Here are some beautiful lines from his speech:
… 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.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.
and then some more…
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.
Read the speech for all the gems of wisdom… thanks to Ali R for sending in this story.
Update: Some video clips including Steve’s speech are here.
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BBC NEWS | In pictures: How the world is changing
Yet again, US has refused to ratify the Kyoto protocol on environment. BBC has an interesting series of pictures on the changing face of our planet.
While the effect of human activity on the global climate is hotly debated, physical signs of environmental change are all around us.
Return of the blogger
1What a better time or place to resume blogging… sitting at a bus stop with nothing to do… 
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The New York Times | Sunday Book Review > ‘The World Is Flat’: The Wealth of Yet More Nations
Tom Friedman’s new book is receiving rave reviews and stirring up controversy at the same time. The review itself is interesting can’t wait to get my hands on the book itself. I heard Friedman being interviewed by Larry King on CNN and it was fascinating… fascinating not because all he was talking about was new… instead he was just connecting known but disparate facts to show how globalization has become second-nature for the world. That said it will be interesting to hear a discussion between him and CK Prahalad.
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Inquirer | Intel Hyperthreading has dangerous flaw, claim
This issue is reminiscent of the Pentium math bug / flaw [here and here] in the late 90s.
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BBC News | US robot builds copies of itself
Are these the first steps towards self-replicating machines? Jugde for yourselves.
the robot’s creators say their experiment shows the ability to reproduce is not unique to biology…Their long-term plan is to design robots made from hundreds or thousands of identical basic modules…These could repair themselves if parts fail, reconfigure themselves to better perform the task they have been set, or even to make extra helpers.
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Space.com | Creation of Black Hole Detected Today
Astronomers photographed a cosmic event this morning which they believe is the birth of a black hole…A faint visible-light flash moments after a high-energy gamma-ray burst likely heralds the merger of two dense neutron stars to create a relatively low-mass black hole, said Neil Gehrels of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. It is the first time an optical counterpart to a very short-duration gamma-ray burst has ever been detected.
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PhysOrg | Motorola Debuts First Ever Nano Emissive Flat Screen Display Prototype
Low-cost display technology is an important factor for enabling low-cost (sub $100) computers.
Motorola Labs today unveiled a working 5-inch color video display prototype based on proprietary Carbon Nanotube (CNT) technology – a breakthrough technique that could create large, flat panel displays with superior quality, longer lifetimes and lower costs than current offerings. Optimized for a large screen High Definition Television (HDTV) that is less than 1-inch thick, this first-of-its kind NED 5-inch prototype harnesses the power of CNTs to fundamentally change the design and fabrication of flat panel displays.
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BBC News | ‘For your tomorrow we gave our today’
The world seems to have forgotten the sacrifices of the Indians during the World Wars. As this article says, the Indian Army at that time was the largest volunteer army- over two and a half million men. And along with the Americans and the British, served in all the fronts of the war. The Allied powers have a debt of gratitude to the India. But, the sad thing is that while most of the world remembers the men and women who sacrificed so much during the World Wars, they are forgotten in India.
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Fortune| Why Google Scares Bill Gates
Microsoft was already months into A massive project aimed at taking down Google when the truth began to dawn on Bill Gates. It was December 2003. He was poking around on the Google company website and came across a help-wanted page with descriptions of all the open jobs at Google. Why, he wondered, were the qualifications for so many of them identical to Microsoft job specs?
Read the article to find out more…
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