Walt, remembered aloud,
“Silent and amazed even when a little boy, I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his statements, As contending against some being or influence.
Bucky, matter of factly replied,
“God is a verb, not a noun.”
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Walt thought for a moment, then said,
“O the puzzle, the thrice-tied knot, the deep and dark pool, all
untied and illumin’d!
O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
To be absolv’d from previous ties and conventions, I from mine and
you from yours!
To find a new unthought-of nonchalance with the best of Nature!
To have the gag remov’d from one’s mouth!
To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am.
Bucky replied thoughtfully,
“I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true”
Walt turns to Bucky and says,
“I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
oppression and shame,
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with
themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying,
neglected, gaunt, desperate,
I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer
of young women,
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be
hid, I see these sights on the earth,
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and
prisoners,
I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who
shall be kill’d to preserve the lives of the rest,
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon
laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
All these – all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out upon,
See, hear, and am silent.”
Bucky, thinks for a moment and replies,
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
“Globally, the IT industry produces about the same volume of greenhouse gasses as the world’s airlines do,” writes Jason Stamper in Standpoint. That’s somewhere in the neighborhood of two percent of the modern civilization’s CO2 emissions.
Even your Google searches have a carbon footprint:
A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO2, depending on how many attempts are needed to get the “right” answer. At the upper end of the scale, two searches create roughly the same emissions as boiling a kettle.
To deliver results to its users quickly, Google has to maintain vast data centres around the world, packed with powerful computers. As well as producing large quantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres need to be well air-conditioned – which uses even more energy.
So here’s something funny: According to Google’s search trends database roughly 368,000 people search “carbon footprint” every month. You get where I’m going with this, right? Even the words “carbon footprint” have a carbon footprint! Ugh.
If you can imagine it, then first imagine it a success.
As I learn more about things I am interested in their mysteries fade and paradoxes arise.
I am most drawn to the infancy of my ideas, the uncertain period prior to true understanding, when innocent pontifications portend anything to be possible. Imagining their success and applying unfettered capacity to my ideas have brought enlightenment and established benchmarks to smash with future diligence.
I suggest that you first seek out the best result of your ideas. Imagine them succeeding at every turn, and only then, embrace your practiced, pragmatic self to find, or pierce, its holes.
The origins of any original idea, if traced would lead its originator on a twisted trail of discovery, most of which they didn’t blaze themselves. At the crux of any substantive idea are the offal of thousands of discoveries made by many more before us. The computer can trace its roots from a seventeenth century binary theorem enabling all numbers to be expressed as either a one or zero. In the early 19th century it was applied to a calculating machine, then in late 1890 to a punch card machine that converted numbers into “instructions”. This French inspiration fueled American inventor Lee De Forest who with the Audion Tube invented modern day electronics. The expression of all logical concepts as numbers, which was encapsulated in Russell/Whitehead’s Principia Mathematica in 1913, lead to the earliest concepts of programming and feedback. Even though all of this knowledge to invent the computer was available to world by 1915 it wasn’t until 1946 that the first operational computer was released.
Progress and perseverance are entwined like the sinews in the muscles of those that stay the course.
1. Hire the best talent. Surround yourself with smarter people who have complementary skills and who challenge the status quo.
2. Think big. Develop BHAGs: big hairy audacious goals. Imagine the impossible and you will be surprised how much you can accomplish.
3. Aim to make a difference. Make the world a better place.
4. Say what you mean and do what you say. Execution and follow-through are critical. Thomas Edison said “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” My father used to always remind me of this.
5. Competition makes you stronger. It also makes you serve your customers better.
6. Always put the customer first. And remember, you have to have a great product or service that is differentiated to win.
7. Take on the hardest challenges. Get out of your comfort zone. If you have not failed at something, you are probably not innovating.
8. Truth-seeking is half the battle in winning. You need to know where you stand in the war.
9. Move fast in a land-grab. Get network effects first. Remember, you need both popularity and profitability.
10. You can be an entrepreneur in a big company.
11. Pay it forward. Be a mentor.
12. If you make a mistake or fail, it’s OK. Fix it fast and move forward. But make sure to take the lessons away so you do not repeat them. Einstein said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Truly wish I could credit the author of these wise words but I don’t have that information.
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