Showing posts with label Steve Jobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve Jobs. Show all posts

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Steve Jobs' death got me back to his Stanford University Commencement speech of 2005. I really liked it in 2005. I love it even more now. I suppose I can "connect the dots", as he mentioned in the speech, a bit better now. Honestly, for me, staying foolish is much easier than staying "hungry and foolish" as Jobs exhorted in that famous speech. Maybe I should give it a shot. But going through the speech I stumbled across the "The Whole Earth Catalogue" that Jobs mentioned in the speech. If it had a cult following till mid-70's, when it closed down, I say it deserved that status. Their stuff  was truly mind-blowing. Obviously, on the way, Jobs had been doing quite a few things right--apart from dropping out of boring college courses--like reading the right things.