Ảnh: Downtown Atlanta chụp từ Turner Field (sân bóng chày của đội The Braves). Có thể thấy mái dát vàng của tòa nhà Capitol gì đó, và 5 vòng tròn Olympic ‘96 đã bạc màu sau hơn 10 năm.
Trộm ý tưởng từ bài viết 10 Articles that Changed My Life (blog LifeReboot.com của Shaun Boyd). Tất nhiên cảm nhận và bài học rút ra là khác với Shaun; cũng không hẳn là những bài này “thay đổi cuộc sống” của mình. Nhưng đa số là những bài viết/phát biểu tương đối ngắn gọn, lời lẽ súc tích, và có tính giáo dục cao nên muốn chia sẻ với các bạn (rất tiếc là chỉ toàn = tiếng Anh).
Chú thích đã được lược bỏ và thêm thắt theo ý mình.
#1 – Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
For teaching me to stop attributing value to unimportant things, and start trusting my instincts. Jobs said “You’ve got to find what you love.” He ended the speech with a wonderful mantra: “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” (Youtube link)
#2 - Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture” (whole lecture)
Guarantee to be the best 2-hour-lecture you’ll ever experience
. This Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor made me really want to get back to school now. There’re also cut-up links in YouTube.
#3 – Steve Pavlina’s “Do it Now” post
Where this guy explain at great length how he graduated from college w/ double major in Computer Sciences and Maths in 3 semesters w/o attending summer school and still got a 3.9 GPA. The article is a bit lengthy in each point and make me feel as if he’s a perfect-tuned machine. But good advices on time management overall.
Okay, too much preaching already. For now I’m reading the would be
#4 – “Eric Sink on the Business of Software” book which contains great practical advises for people who want to open a software company (or any kind of start-up really).
Please do share your good read/watch (non-fiction only pls — so something like “NY Love Story” would be deleted
)
Tags: bookreview, graduation, thought

September 26, 2007 at 2:27 am |
Non fiction books: (most recent reads..)
1. Monkey business (hilarious and sarcastic of banking world in early 1990s)
2. Good to great (same author of Build to last)
3. Stumbling on happiness
Watch:
Tedtalks! they are all amazing
September 26, 2007 at 4:35 am |
Gau Pooh xinh xan
September 26, 2007 at 11:44 am |
“Thà làm ông chủ nhỏ, còn hơn là làm 1 thằng làm công cao cấp” —> from my father’s speech…
October 7, 2007 at 7:07 am |
Can I share my real life. It worths
March 19, 2008 at 9:42 am |
hi, thank you for this. i recently went through a very hard time…. today, when I stayed home and thinking about qutting my job, i remembered this entry (I checked out the SteveJob last time) and read again the rest…. anyway, thanks