Check, Not Checkmate
from the innovation-ain't-over-yet dept
I've been hearing more and more people saying things about how the technology industry is now growing boring - and there's nothing new left to work on or discover. I think (of course) that this is completely ridiculous. In the last couple weeks alone I've seen some incredibly cool new products that will be on the market soon. Here's a column basically saying that there's still plenty of innovation left to come. I'm actually going to speak to this point a bit next week during my talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference (for anyone who's planning on attending). I'm amused by the pessimists who say there's nothing new coming, because they strike me as the same sort of extremists who thought that the market was only going to go up a few years ago.
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Lemme try and explain my point of view.
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Re: Lemme try and explain my point of view.
Compared to you, my twenties were a pinball disaster zone (which might have had something to do with the fact that I graduated college into the 1990-1993 recession). By necessity, I tried a bunch of different jobs, and even went overseas looking for work.
While I was crashing down the road, I bumped into my wife.
For all the scars and heart attacks, I wouldn't change a thing.
Now, while you still have time, do something radical. I'm not saying quit your job and walk on your mortgage. I am saying realize that one day you are going to die, and when you are on your deathbed, your memories better not be "I followed a sensible career path."
Find a strong avocation. Volunteer to be an EMT. Build a cabin in the woods. Become a child advocate for the courts. Start a project that will forever make spam obsolete. Something. Anything. But for God's sake, it is time you start writing the stories you intend to tell your grandchildren.
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Nice to be young and to know everything.
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