The Next Wave

Notes Steve Jobs wrote to himself in preparing for his now-famous commencement speech at Stanford.

“Most of our friends and family told us we were nuts.”

“You can’t plan to meet the people who will change your life.”

These notes were released by the Steve Jobs Archive for the 20th anniversary of his speech here: https://www.theverge.com/news/686524/steve-jobs-archive-stanford-commencement-speech-20th-anniversary

Building a little space at /thenextwave and watching everything on /videolab.

I watched his biopic briefly but never knew/remembered he was a designer himself? 

Oh and the ability to “recognize it when it happens, and have the courage and clarity of mind to grab onto it” how can one possess this skill? Asking for a me 🙃

I think we’re all trying to figure out the answer to your question :) Trying and failing, rinse and repeat.

If you like this theme, here’s another of my favorite speeches. It’s mostly jokes for the first 75% but is moving at the end: https://youtu.be/KmDYXaaT9sA?feature=shared