Tuesday, June 21, 2005

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

Here's the transcript of the Stanford commencement address Steve Jobs delivered this year. 'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
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I found it particularly engaging as I realized the parallels in our lives. Like Steve, I was adopted and like him, I dropped out of college when I felt guilty that my parents were spending outrageous sums of money for my out-of-state tuition at UM and I had no idea what I wanted to do. By the time I went back to school a couple of years later, the Macintosh had been introduced. In his speech, Jobs speaks of how a calligraphy class he took after he dropped out led him to build typography into the Mac. I learned a little typography as editor of my yearbook in High School, but it was using the Macintosh that really helped me learn to use type creatively. Thanks, Steve, for dropping out and connecting the dots.