I have talked to a lot of people in tech about this at the recent reboot 10 conference here in Copenhagen.
And I think it's one of the most inspirational things you can know about people, it makes sense to me to actually perspective it into what they are doing now.
Anyway my first job out of college was for apple computers back in 1999. I literally went from my classroom to Cork, Ireland to help build up their european support center which is still located in the same spot today.
This was before Apple Computers where cool! this was when Steve Jobs went back to working at Apple computers ( he did that while I was there)
I even promised myself after troubleshooting mac's in english, danish, swedish, norwegian, french and finnish (!) that I would never get a mac because I deeply thought that the OS sucked ( and it wasn't compatible with windows)..
I am deeply in love with my 2,5 year old macbook pro still ( and that comes from a girl who used to wear a pc laptop out in a year or so.
Both me and Apple has come a long way since then.
And I am deeply convinced that my life would have looked differently if I wouldn't have worked at apple as my first job out of college.
When I got back to Denmark I was literally sucked into a new computer startup and I haven't really worked for anything else than something evolving the internet. It's partly Apple's fault I'm sure.
so what about you - did you first job out of college shape you as much as mine did ?
[reboot, future, cork, ireland, job, college, perspective, apple, recession]
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Punk rock changed the game. Punk rock said " you have all your talents, but you don't need to use them the "old ways" to actually achieve what you want in your life".
all that mattered in Punk Rock was that you had something to say, it didn't really matter if you played your instrument in the best way possible, as long as you had the courage to speak your ways of the world.
There are huge similarities between punk rock and the web. One of them is that because the entry of creativity was lowered massively with the punk rock outburst in the 70s... The entry of creativity is very low right now because of the web. because of the long tail (Chris Anderson also covers this subject in his "the long tail".)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/negrilli/2249288405
Most importantly the web has democratized the tools of creativity, - no wait it has made them completely free!... No matter what content you would like to put out there, what ideas you have, you can spur them of in a minute. So there are HUGE resemblances between Punk Rock and the web. Maybe it has spurred from the same rebellion against the "right thing" - or "normality"..?
[creativity, reboot, free, tools, punkrock, speech, music, entryofcreativity, democratization, ideas, normality, rock band]
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so I am fresh out of reboot10 - which was an inspiring blast of vision.
one of the things that was a major inspiration to me was Peter Rukavina's session on "working for free". It moved me deeply to see how involved Peter was in his local community and how he liked to do stuff for free - for a greater cause of his own (fx. deciding to do the mailinglist of the local coffee shop to attract more customers, so it won't close down and he could have his favorite coffee everyday).
It makes sense to me because Peter are doing these initiatives to make himself happy. Really this is a wonderful thing actually springing from a selfish wish to maintain the status quo - or changing it for the better of his local community.
This presentation showed me how proactive you could be about your surroundings, and how much action and passion you can put into the things you would like to see prosper.
I will see what I can fix out here in Hvissinge - when things comes up I will let you know.
While I was in the session I had an idea of a "working for free" wiki, working to encourage these things.. I don't know how it would work in practice though.. it just stroked me as a great idea =)
[reboot, action, proactivity, peterrukavina, free, local, community, hvissinge, happy, statusquo]
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