Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

An oldie but a great speech (old HN discussion here: [link] ). For anyone who's interested, here are some other extraordinary commencement speeches: Steve Jobs: [this video] Bill Watterson: [link] David Foster Wallace: [link] There is a lot of good advice and numerous great sound-bytes from all of these; but one of my personal favorites comes from Bill Watterson, who makes a point that I feel often gets overlooked at HN in our relentless pursuit of success: Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential ― as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You'll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you're doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them. To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

I almost feel as though it was a kind of Steve Jobs's "Connect The Dots" thing for me. [1] Let's see, I can say that the earliest I was ever exposed to programming was when I was 12 years old. The online game Neopets was huge between a few friends and I, and I wanted more Neopoints (currency) than them. So, through tooling around on the internet I found a message board with a small user-base that wrote programs to take advantage of Neopets and the way their HTTP handling was done (that's how the game worked back then, this is circa 2002/2003). But, by just joining and registering you weren't given full access to some of the best programs, specifically one known as an autobuyer. This autobuyer would refresh the marketplace shops and, through a text file of known high-value objects, refresh and buy those items that you could resell for up to 10,000x markup. But the only programs I had access to were low-hanging fruit ones - ones that let you play some of the games without opening your browser. The only way to access the coveted autobuyer was through contributing to the community, both through posts and your own programs. So I downloaded Visual Basic and wrote a program that went to several pages within Neopets, that just by going and submitting an HTTP request returned Neopoints, sometimes netting in randomly high amounts. I called it "Dailies." By doing this I was granted access to the holy grail of Neopets cheating. Needless to say I abused the autobuyer, and a few months lat

I ran this on steve jobs 2005 video in stanford. It gave me wrong summary. The summary says Jobs gave 3 speeches at Stanford, in 2005, 2006, 2007. Please don't trust the chatGPT blindly. It has limitations as of now. Video - [this video] Summary below: >>. Steve Jobs delivered three speeches at Stanford University: one in 2005, one in 2006, and one in 2007. The 2005 speech is about trusting that the dots will connect in one's future, and how that gives confidence to follow one's heart. The 2006 speech is about how one's life destiny is something that can be trusted, and how that leads to happiness. The 2007 speech is about death, and how remembering that one will be dead soon allows one to make the biggest decisions in life with less fear.