The World Motivation
Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change.
“Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change.”
— Mitch Kapor · Asking
Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change.
The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.
If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.
Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.
The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.
The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
'Faces of Love' is asking about what the fundamental nature of love is.
Sometimes as a deaf actor navigating television and film, I fret that I am asking for too much or am slowing things down, but I have learned that by being honest about what I need, I become more efficient and effective as an actor.
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.