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Inspiration: Free Solo (watching someone with singular focus that achieves excellence, it's absolutely incredible)
Tech: meh, not sure much does it here. Tons of entertaining stuff, but not sure what else. Sorkin is good I guess: Steve Jobs and The Social Network.
- the recent Apollo 11 movie with restored footage
- in the shadow of the moon documentary (and the related Moon machines series), awesome music as well
- Moonwalk one
Sales: Boiler Room, Glengary Glen Ross Inspiration: Free Solo (watching someone with singular focus that achieves excellence, it's absolutely incredible) Tech: meh, not sure much does it here. Tons of entertaining stuff, but not sure what else. Sorkin is good I guess: Steve Jobs and The Social Network.
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Also open to recommendations from any other world industry, including Japanese anime.
If you need external inspiration to do something that's usually a bad sign. If you need it to start a business that's a recipe for disaster. I tend to agree with Elon Musk, he said: "If you need inspiring words, don't do it." [0] [0] https://www.facebook.com/drivelinebaseball/videos/if-you-nee...
“I think Apollo 11 was one of the most inspiring things in all of human history. Arguably the most inspiring thing. And one of the most universally good things in history. The level of inspiration that provided to the people of Earth was incredible. And it certainly inspired me. I’m not sure SpaceX would exist if not for Apollo 11.”
- Elon Musk
Some years ago I stumbled upon an "old" documentary on the Voyager missions, from the 80s or 90s I think. It covered the work done on orbit mechanics in the early 70s, the realisation that in a couple of years time there'd be a once in a generation window to send a probe to visit all the planets in the outer solar system, and the political and engineering challenges that had to be overcome to make it happen. It reall…
That's putting it mildly—the alignment Voyager used occurs once every 176 years! That we went from mucking around with sounding rockets in the New Mexico desert to venturing out of the solar system in a couple decades remains, in my opinion, the crowning technical achievement of humankind.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also open to recommendations from any other world industry, including Japanese anime.
If you need external inspiration to do something that's usually a bad sign. If you need it to start a business that's a recipe for disaster. I tend to agree with Elon Musk, he said: "If you need inspiring words, don't do it." [0] [0] https://www.facebook.com/drivelinebaseball/videos/if-you-nee...