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No, I don't feel like I'm missing out on what you're talking about. But there's probably a party in your neighborhood a few houses down that you are missing out on.
Outliers, like lottery winners and "beating the house" Vegas. It happens, but very infrequently.
A couple of days ago my seven year old asked how internet videos are made. This morning, to answer him, we made a 57-frame stop-motion movie of two Lego minifigures building a wall, only to have it blown up by a Bob-omb three times taller then them. No, I'm not missing out. ... Oh, you mean all that sturm und drang about entrepeneurship? Meh. This is a wonderful time to be alive. Make sure you enjoy it. Doesn't have…
I'd love to do something like that with my daughter. What software did you use to put it together?
Find your passion, do the best you can, learn, improve your skills and you might get lucky one day or just live a good life. Money is nice but its not everything.
I've been there. It took me a while to figure out that the media manufactures stories to get eyeballs. Do some digging and you'll find a different story. Once you know the translation key, it is much less envious. - Overnight success => Decade of work - Owner is worth an estimated $100 million => Owner is saving for a couch (Kevin Rose said this after his cover story in a magazine) - Innovative idea => Ripped off a c…
Not that I didn't believe you, but I wanted to hear it for myself. I finally found it on Diggnation: http://revision3.com/diggnation/2006-08-03/
06:30 - They start talking BusinessWeek's cover story: "How [Kevin Rose] made $60 million in 18 months"
06:50 - Rose: "Here's the deal - I don't have 60 million dollars. I don't have 1 million dollars. I don't have any thousands of dollars."
Note: they bring up the couch because the episode starts off talking about Kevin moving out and the lack of furniture in his new place.
So I wrote a 5 year plan.
It forced me to think through what I wanted to accomplish in the next five years, and what made me happy.
Every five years or so, I revisit it.
Having goals in mind helps.
It may seem like everything has already been done but remember that back in 1898, Charles Holland Duell, who was appointed as the United States Commissioner of Patents famously said "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Start from the grassroot level. Start by looking around you, think of how we can contribute to education and make better citizens of tomorrow by empowering our children with technology, be able to assist farmers with advanced data analysis that would enable them maximise their cultivation, predictive analytics in policing and bring down cost of law enforcement, there are plenty of ideas that are worth billions of dollars. There is no point in being another Uber of some on demand service valued at a billion pound. Be another google, another apple, microsoft or IBM. The foundation of all these companies were built on creating a legacy, to revolutionise the way we think and percieve life and to make a difference in our existence.
Have a short term goal of 2 years to find what you want to do and chase it with singe-minded determination. You are not late. Good Luck!
Every day. But then I look at my children, remember the work I've done that I'm most proud of and stuff like that and I shrug it off. Sure, I would love to be more socially engaged in my surroundings, but whenever I'm in doubt about my life I reevaluate my priorities and usually discover that I'm pretty happy where I'm at. It's my life and I get to define the optimum, and so far viral content, insta-fame and richness…
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good" - Anonymous