“To try to be cool is to not be cool. To chase cool, you’re chasing something that already exists, which means you’re always going to be on the wrong side of it, you’ll always be following.” - Andrew Keller, Co-Executive Creative Director, Crispin Porter and Bogusky
Yes, I’m a total Mac fan boy, but if I was going to settle for a windows box, I’d be all over this. Check out the brilliant innovation in the Ethernet port being integrated into the power block. I’m surprised Apple didn’t come out with something like this on the AIR to give users more ports.
Rob Robinson, a business school professor at the University of Hawaii, asked me to speak to one of his MBA classes recently. I did that this morning.
I mostly spoke about entrepreneurship in my life and what I’ve learned from running Blue Lava. The students were awesome and they asked some great questions. One thing that was different from when I was in school was that a lot of people had laptops in class. Nobody carried a laptop to class when I went to university – and I majored in Computer Engineering. I was also surprised that of about 10 laptops I saw in the classroom, only three were Mac. I would have guess that there would be more.
It was kind of strange being asked to speak to an MBA class. I never went to business school but I’ve given it some thought over the years. I think if you had asked me a couple of years ago, I would have said yes, I’ll definitely go. At this point I’m pretty sure I’ll never go.
As an academic exercise, I think it would be great. I consider myself an eternal student. Right now I need to buy a second bookshelf because I’ve got about 50 business books overflowing from the 200 or so I already have stacked. And that’s just books I’ve bought in the last 2 years (no, I haven’t read them all – I’m working on it!). Amazon loves me.
It would be awesome to go to school for two years and do nothing but study business. But that would probably last about a month for me. I’d be off starting a new venture about as soon as I’d settle into the academia. I imagine that the coolest thing about business school is the people you meet. What a great place to make connections and meet future business partners.
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I find entrepreneurs to be a remarkably supersticious folk, much like an athlete and his favorite glove. Although I’d bet money that the vast majority of tech entrepreneurs are atheist or agnostic, I would also bet that many of them have weird quirks about particular symbols and objects in their lives.
Recently I discovered that a good friend of mine has a thing for the infinity symbol. Well, that’s interesting. So do I.
Which brings me to wonder to what extent symbols play a role in our lives. Is there energy in things like that? Can carrying a symbol around really help shape a person’s reality? Or is it just a middleman for the power of our faith and will power? Kind of like belief in God allows people to indirectly believe in themselves. That kind of faith enables people to accomplish things they might “think” they’re too weak to accomplish - but now they can with God’s “support.” Religious faith hence becomes a conduit for a person’s will power. Most people don’t want to acknowledge their personal brilliance any more than they want to stare at the sun directly. Is symbolic faith the same? Middle man, source of energy, both, neither?
I asked my friend and he had a classic response: “I think, therefore I am. I think about infinity, therefore I am.” And yes, he’s been infinitely successful with that approach.
I was in the elevator the other day and heard a couple of foreigners laughing. Isn’t it interesting how regardless of culture, language, skin color, or upbringing, there’s one thing all humans have in common: we all laugh the same way. Countries have different approaches to sex, marriage, drug use, communication, work, socializing, but they all enjoy laughter in exactly the same way.
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