Steve Jobs

So today I got to sit in a room while a bunch of my intern associates asked Steve some questions. Some of them were insightful, some of them were interesting, but I felt a waste of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

And some were downright stupid. Like what Apple is going to do about Web 2.0
This question was asked by a girl who also thought it would be a good idea to send a headhunting job offer on the internal mailing list for a start-up who is doing something with Web 2.0

Needless to say, I'm not impressed.

I didn't get to ask my question Jon. Steve talked a lot about how the company was filled with the best and brightest, and the best way to go on is to hire people that are smarter than you at whatever they do. But the finishing speech was about Passion, about you had to have it. About how you could not possibily succeed without Passion, because Passion is what makes you work those long hours, what makes you keep going when it looks bad.

And he's right. My question would have been how to find it, I know I need to have it. But I don't know how to find it. I don't think he would have had an answer that would solve my problems, but he would probably have had something to say about it.

I told my co-workers about that. They pointed me to Steve's Stanford Commencement Speech.

It was interesting to read that. And he's probably right. It may be arrogant to say this, but I think Steve and I think in a very similar way. He has a very irreverant attitude towards things, and thinks about find problems, and then finding solutions for them. But the long and the short of it I think is that you can't be told how to find your passion. You just have to try stuff until you do find it, and don't settle for less.

Hey Randeep, as much as you may envy Jon and I for certain things, I think we both envy you a bit too, because you have found that thing that makes you tick. Found that something that you think about all that time, that something. One thing.