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"This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time
offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation the Macintosh a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to
apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.My third story is about death.When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear
of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.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.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog,
which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much."Steve JobsAcho que nao preciso dizer mais nada. Esse discurso disse tudo. Obrigado Steve Jobs. Fica com Deus. =)
Ha os que amamE ha os que so odeiamHa os que acreditamE ha os que desconfiamHa os que mentemE ha aqueles que sofremHa os que vivemE ha aqueles que morremHa os que decidemE ha os que apenas seguemHa os que conseguemE ha aqueles que sempre desistemHa os que ganhamE ha aqueles que perdemHa os que sonhamE ha os que apenas repetemHa os que sabemE ha aqueles que so duvidamHa os que odeiamE ha aqueles que apenas amamHa os que estao sempre a correrE ha aqueles que preferem esperarHa os que querem lembrarE ha aqueles que lutam pra esquecer. Iorgama Porcely "Chorar nao resolve, falar pouco e uma virtude, aprender a se colocar em primeiro lugar nao e egoismo, e o que nao mata com certeza fortalece. As vezes mudar e preciso, nem tudo vai ser como voce quer, a vida continua. Pra qualquer escolha se segue alguma consequencia, vontades efemeras nao valem a pena, quem faz uma vez nao faz duas necessariamente, mas quem faz dez, com certeza faz onze. Perdoar e nobre, esquecer e quase impossivel. Nem todo mundo e tao legal assim, e de perto ninguem e normal. Quem te merece nao te faz chorar, quem gosta cuida, o que esta no passado tem motivos para nao fazer parte do seu presente, nao e preciso perder pra aprender a dar valor e os amigos ainda se contam nos dedos. Aos poucos voce percebe o que vale a pena, o que se deve guardar pro resto da vida, e o que nunca deveria ter entrado nela. Nao tem como esconder a verdade, nem tem como enterrar o passado, o tempo sempre vai ser o melhor remedio, mas seus resultados nem sempre sao imediatos."Charles Chaplin "A forma como voce vai enxergar dependede por qual das janelas voce deseja ver a vista."Iorgama Porcely Imagine there's no heavenIt's easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the peopleLiving for todayImagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may sayI'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope some dayYou'll join usAnd the world will be as oneImagine no possessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungerA brotherhood of manImagine all the peopleSharing all the worldYou may say,I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope some dayYou'll join usAnd the world will live as oneJohn Lennon "De a quem voce ama: asas para voar, raizes para voltar e motivos para ficar."Dalai Lama Talvez a vida se resuma as concessoes feitas por nos.Talvez ganhar seja, as vezes, se contentar com o segundo lugar.Talvez viver seja uma combinacao de escolhas:entre bom ou mau, entre ter o que se quer ou nao ter o que se quer, entre lutar ou desistir.Iorgama Porcely " - Contagie. Faca com que as pessoas tenham prazer em te ter por perto. Faca alguem feliz. Saiba ser seletivo. Procure conservar a sua volta so os bons, os que te fazem bem e que te acrescentam. Dispense a frieza, falsidade e o viver de
aparencia, pois isso so nos sobrecarrega e nao nos traz utilidade alguma. E outra coisa, a verdadeira felicidade esta dentro de cada um. Entao encontre-a dentro de si proprio, nao deposite-a em ninguem. Humanos sao falhos. Ninguem e perfeito nem completo. E sim encaixes. Busque seus encaixes e conserve-os. -"Jackie Frotas
MatemagicaEfeito: Este e um simples porem espantoso truque matematico, no qual no final o numero de cartas de sua mao e o mesmo que o valor da carta virada.Truque:1- Retire os curingas do baralho. Eles nao serao usados nesse truque.2- Faca o seguinte esquema com as cartas: vire uma carta em cima da mesa, e ponha em cima dela o numero de cartas que restam para que se alcance 10. Por exemplo: se a carta virada for um 2, coloque em cima dela mais 8 cartas (sempre viradas para cima).. Se a carta virada for um 6, coloque 4 cartas em cima dela. Se a carta virada for um 10, nao ponha nenhuma carta em cima dela. (Reis, damas e valetes valem 10)3- Ao completar um monte comece outro, ate que acabem suas cartas. Se sobrarem cartas que nao completem 10 nao tem problema, faca um montinho com elas tambem, porem esse monte nao podera ser escolhido pelo espectador..4- Peca para o espectador escolher tres montes com no minimo tres cartas, e vire esses montes para baixo.5- Recolha todas as outras cartas, e faca um maco com elas.6- Retire 19 cartas do maco. Voce nao precisara mais delas.7- Peca para o espectador apontar dois montes quaisquer. Vire a primeira carta de cada monte, e some seus valores. Por exemplo: 1+5=6, ou 3+4=78- Retire do seu maco o numero de cartas resultantes da soma. Por exemplo: Se a soma foi 6, retire seis cartas do maco, se a soma foi 7, retire sete cartas do maco.Conte quantas cartas restam em sua mao. Agora vire a primeira carta do monte que o espectador nao escolheu. E o mesmo valor do numero de cartas de sua mao! Alta PrecisaoEfeito: O espectador escolhe tres cartas aleatoriamente, e o magico adivinha as tres!Truque:1- Embaralhe bem o maco, e antes de coloca-lo na mesa, espie qual e a carta de baixo. (No nosso exemplo suporemos ser um 7 de paus).2- Peca para o espectador pegar a carta do topo do maco, e sem olhar, por ela na mesa, virada para baixo. 3- Ponha a mao em cima da carta e finja estar recebendo sinais. Entao diga: E uma sete de paus.(Na verdade voce deve dizer a carta que estava embaixo do maco).4- Olhe entao a carta escolhida, mas nao deixe o espectador ve-la. Suponhamos que seja uma dama de copas.5- Peca para o espectador puxar uma carta qualquer do meio do maco, e sem olha-la colocar em cima da mesa.6- Ponha a mao em cima dela e diga: Esta e a dama de copas.(Deve ser dita a carta que voce acabou de olhar o valor).7- Olhe entao essa carta sem mostrar para o espectador (suponhamos que seja um as de ouros), e diga que voce estava certo.8- Peca para o espectador entao pegar a carta de baixo do maco, que voce sabe que e um 7 de paus. Peca para coloca-la na mesa sem olhar.9- Ponha a mao em cima dela e diga: Essa carta e um as de ouros (a ultima carta que voce viu).10- Junte as
Festa dos ReisEfeito O espectador escolhe um numero de 10 a 19. Retira esse tanto de cartas do maco. Depois soma os dois algarismos do numero pensado, e volta esse tanto para o maco. Vira a proxima carta na mesa e e um rei. Repete-se tudo de novo e a carta e novamente um rei. Repete-se uma terceira vez e a carta e novamente um rei. Por fim o espectador pensa em um numero de 1 a 9, e sem dizer tira esse tanto de cartas de cima do maco e vira a ultima carta pensada. Depois retira-se o numero de cartas do maco igual ao valor dessa carta, e la esta mais um rei.Truque:1- Antes de comecar prepare o maco da seguinte forma: retire todos os reis do maco e as cartas 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 e 9 de ouros. O maco deve estar com a boca para baixo. Coloque os reis em cima do maco (sempre virado para baixo), depois o 9, depois o 8,7,6,5,4,3 e 2. O dois deve ser a primeira carta do maco, virada para baixo.2- Embaralhe o maco mas sem embaralhar as primeiras doze cartas de cima.3- Coloque o maco preparado em cima da mesa.4- Peca para um espectador pensar um numero entre 10 e 19.5- Retire do maco o numero de cartas pensado, uma a uma, viradas para baixo, formado assim um pequeno montinho.6- Peca para o espectador somar os algarismos do numero pensado.( Ex: Se ele pensou 18. Faca 1+8)7- Retorne do montinho para o maco o valor da soma.(No nosso exemplo, 1+8=9, ou seja, nove cartas sao retornadas ao maco).8- Peca para ele virar a proxima carta do montinho, e esta sera um rei.9- Ponha o montinho em cima do maco.10- Repita os passos de 4 a 9 mais duas vezes.11- Agora peca para ele pensar um numero de 1 a 9, e retirar esse tanto de cartas do maco, e virar a ultima. Se ele estiver escolhido 9, o ultimo rei aparecera. Mas se ele tiver escolhido outro numero, aparecera uma carta de outro valor. Peca para ele tirar do maco esse tanto de cartas e virar a ultima.(ex: se apareceu um 4, ele deve retirar 4 cartas do maco, virando a ultima). Esta carta sera o ultimo rei. CombinacaoEfeito: Nesse truque e necessario um assistente. Enquanto o magico sai da sala, o espectador escolhe uma das cartas viradas na mesa. Quando o magico retorna, o assistente aponta para diversas cartas, e quando ele aponta para a carta escolhida, o magico diz que aquela e a carta!Truque:1- Muito simples. Combine com seu assistente que quando ele for apontar a carta correta, que aponte um de seus cantos, e quando ele for apontar outras cartas quaisquer, aponte o meio delas.2- Saia da sala enquanto o espectador escolhe uma carta e diz ao assistente.3- O assistente deve perguntar ao espectador em que ordem ele deseja que sua carta seja apontada. Por exemplo: a quarta carta apontada, ou a sexta carta apontada.4- Retorne a sala, e enquanto ele estiver apontado os centros das cartas diga: Nao e essa
"Um time de cientistas na Europa descobriu uma misteriosa energia emanando do chao em varios pontos de todo o planeta. Apesar de os estudiosos analisarem o acontecimento com cuidado, ninguem, de fato, sabe qual e o proposito dessa forca. Muitos, porem, acreditam que ela esta controlando a nossa maneira de pensar. E agora, sera que nao devemos tomar as redeas dessa energia antes que ela passe a comandar o nosso planeta?"Esse foi o primeiro paragrafo que li sobre o jogo (juntamente com o trailer acima), e foi o que mais me chamou a atencao. Esse clima de suspense no trailer e essa "guerra" entre duas faccoes. Esse e o "Ingress". Um jogo que comecou a ser divulgado no final do ano passado, e que comecei a jogar a pouco tempo. Vou tentar falar um pouco dele e quem sabe arrecadar alguns seguidores a causa.No mundo do jogo, e descoberto que ha uma nova energia em nosso mundo. Essa energia pode ser vista e coletada atraves do aplicativo do jogo. Alem dessa energia, ha tambem os "portais". Lugares distribuidos pelo mundo em locais publicos, monumentos historicos e pecas de arte. Quando os portais sao "dominados" por um time, eles podem ser interligados formando um "campo" de forca. Quanto maior o tamanho do campo de forca, mais "mentes" voce e seu time dominam.No jogo, os jogadores se dividem em duas faccoes, onde o objetivo e o mesmo: Dominar portais e criar os maiores Campos de forca."The Enlightened" (os iluminados, os eclarescidos): Acreditam que essa forca trara novos niveis de conhecimento e sao a favor da utilizacao dessa nova forma de energia."The Resistance" (a resistencia): Sao contra o uso e o conhecimento da energia. Veem com maus olhos aqueles que a querem domina-la e acreditam que essa energia so trara o mal.Voltando a falar sobre o jogo, voce tera que se mexer. Para dominar, ou ate proteger e ligar os portais para formar campos de forca, voce precisa andar pelo mundo fisicamente. Para encontrar os portais na sua cidade ou regiao, existe o site http://ingress.com/intel com o mapa mundi e a localizacao de todos os portais e campos ja criados. E como o jogo e mundial e em equipes, o proprio jogo tem um Chat para a conversa com todos os jogadores, ou apenas com os membros do seu time num chat privado da equipe. Isso serve muito para planejar ataques/defesas, informar novas localidades e pedir dicas sobre o jogo. O jogo esta disponivel por enquanto apenas para aparelhos com Android, e para fazer parte do jogo precisa ser convidado por um jogador, ou receber o redeem code por e-mail. Para receber o codigo, se inscreva aqui: www.ingress.com E se voce e do tipo que prefere "hackear" da sua propria casa, no conforto do seu lar, existe tambem o grupo dos "Decoders". Todo dia o site da NIANTIC PROJECT publica um novo enigma/puzzle para ser decifrado. Ele vai desde pesquisas, a contexto historico, codigo hexadecimal e outros conteudos bem peculiares para pesquisa. Fica a dica tambem da comunidade do Google+ sobre os "Ingress Decode".Ja comecei
a jogar e aprender aos poucos as manhas e itens do jogo. Qualquer nova informacao que valha a pena, irei postar aqui. Para quem quiser saber mais, segue uma lista de links sobre o Ingress que achei pesquisando. Links Oficiais, Referencia e Pesquisa:Site Oficial: http://www.ingress.com/Niantic Project: http://www.nianticproject.com/Decode Ingress: http://decodeingress.me/Comunidade Google+ Decode: https://plus.google.com/111701852247617430859/Guia: http://ingressfieldguide.com/Guia: http://ingressguide.com/ Contribuicao para o Texto: Felippe SilvestrePublicado tambem em: http://infinite-blast.blogspot.com.br/2013/02/ingress-its-time-to-move.html