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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
14:30 → 14:4818s"Stay hungry, stay foolish" gets quoted to death, but watch the eighteen seconds before it — the Whole Earth Catalog framing is what gives the line its weight.
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14:30 → 14:4818sPassagepaulgraham.com
How to Do Great Work
The first step is to decide what to work on. The work you choose needs to have three qualities: it has to be something you have a natural aptitude for, that you have a deep interest in, and that offers scope to do great work. In practice you don't have to worry much about the…
The quiet radical idea here: scope is the criterion people obsess over, and it's the one PG says to ignore. Aptitude and interest compound; scope takes care of itself.
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