Ejercicio
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
(Sigue hambriento. Sigue alocado)
Cuando era joven, había una publicación asombrosa llamada The Whole Earth Catalog (Catalogo de toda la tierra), una de las biblias de mi generación. La creó un tipo llamado Stewart Brand, no lejos de aquí, en Menlo Park. Y la trajo a la vida con su toque poético. Eran los últimos años 60, antes de las computadoras personales y la autoedicion, así que se hacían con máquinas de escribir, tijeras, y cámaras polaroid.
Era como Google con tapas de cartulina, 30 años antes de que llegara Google. Era idealista, y rebosaba de herramientas claras y grandes conceptos. Stewart y su equipo sacaron varios números del The Whole Earth Catalog y cuando llegó su momento, sacaron un último numero. Eso fue a mediados de los 70 y yo tenia su edad.
En la contraportada de su ultimo número había una fotografía de una carretera por el campo a primera hora de la mañana. La clase de carretera en la que podrias encontrarte haciendo autostop si eres aventurero. Bajo ella estaban las palabras “Sigue Hambriento, Sigue Alocado”.
Era su ultimo mensaje de despedida: Sigue Hambriento, Sigue Alocado. Y siempre he deseado eso para mi. Y ahora, cuando se gradúan para comenzar de nuevo, les deseo eso: Sigan Hambrientos, Sigan Alocados.
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Steve Jobs, extracto del Discurso que dió en la Universidad de Standford (California), el 12 de junio del 2005.
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“People obviously retreat from the world for wildly different reasons, and in different ways. It’s certainly different for a celebrity, or someone who’s spent a lot of time in the limelight or in positions of public pressure, to want to shuck that scrutiny and all the myths that can build up around such personae. It’s hard to maintain a persona when you’re truly alone. There are also people who escape for spiritual reasons, who go off to contemplate, meditate, or whatever. And then there are those that are just running, the broken people, who are running from themselves as much as the world.” — From an interview by Minnpost to Brad Zellar about the book “House of Coates” http://www.minnpost.com/minnpost-asks/2012/03/fanfare-broken-man-q-brad-zellar
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“Patience is good. Synchronicity is better.” — Scott Rabalais (from “The Nature Of Synchronicity”)
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simple.” — Henry David Thoreau
“We can learn nearly as much from an experiment that does not work as from one that does. Failure is not something to be avoided but rather something to be cultivated. That’s a lesson from science that benefits not only laboratory research, but design, sport, engineering, art, entrepreneurship, and even daily life itself. All creative avenues yield the maximum when failures are embraced.” — Kevin Kelly on failure as a key ingredient of innovation (via curiositycounts)
(via curiositycounts)
“The sky is my place. The wind, my food. My dreams, my fate.” — LPT
“We are free. We just have to remember it”
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HUMAN RESOURCE PHILOSOPHY
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.
” — François Auguste René Chateaubriand via HOLSTEE (www.blog.holstee.com/quote-of-the-day)