Neulich, in einer technischen Fachbuchhandlung nahe der Technischen Universität Wien:
Kundin: „Guten Tag, haben Sie Literatur zu diesem Web 2.0, von dem man so viel liest?“
Verkäufer: „?!“
Kundin: „Wissen Sie, ich bin Personalistin, komme gerade von der Firmenmesse an der TU, und da reden alle über Web 2.0, jetzt wollte ich wissen, was das ist, um in den Job Interviews mit Kandidaten entsprechend gerüstet zu sein… Jeder redet darüber, es gibt einen ziemlichen Hype…“
Verkäufer: „Tut mir leid, da kann ich ihnen nicht helfen.“
Ich war hin- und hergerissen zwischem verächtlichen Mitleid und amüsierten Soll-ich-sie-aufklären-Gefühlen…
There is some kind of “aura” about Steve Jobs that I cannot quite define… (and note that I don’t call myself an Apple fanboy).
I just read this Commencement Address – I don’t know whether he has somebody writing his rather personal speeches; I doubt he does.
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.
Reading about such personal things as him being adopted, being diagnosed with an uncurable form of cancer – such honesty from the CEO of a multi billion dollar company talking to a couple of students… It may be an American thing, but still I’m impressed.
I’m using a blackberry again – it’s a 8700v, but (un)surprisingly little has changed since the last modell i used (almost 3 years ago).
i still don’t like the fonts this thing uses – even if you turn on it’s “ClearType”-equivalent option to smoothen the characters, it still looks ugly IMHO. i wonder how former colleagues could use it with a 6pt (!) font size…
i found an almost flame-war of (probably seasoned) blackberry users against the iPhone hype and how inferior this thing is. ah, i read that t-mobile has made it to offer the iPhone exclusively in Germany (and probably Austria, though this is not confirmed yet). even more annoying that it will not have an UMTS option, so one better waits for the next hardware generation (a wise decision for any type of electronic hardware, as many disgruntled Xbox360 owners can assure you)…
