{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Curiosity Chronicle","title":"Steve Jobs @ Stanford - 16 Years Later","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":338,"description":"Steve Jobs delivered the commencement speech at Stanford University on June 12, 2005. 16 years later, its wisdom remains.Lessons from Steve Jobs (on careers, startups, and life):Develop Independent ViewsTo carve your own path - in your career or life - you have to develop your own views. Steve Jobs originally went to college because it was what he was supposed to do after graduating high school. He dropped out when he couldn’t see the value in it.“I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. So I decided to drop out...it was one of the best decisions I ever made.\"Don't chart your course based on someone else's map for your life. Develop independent views.Let Curiosity Guide YouThere are no how-to books on life (or no good ones, at least). You have to develop your own guidebook that empowers you to navigate the endless, mysterious expanse. Curiosity can be that guide (if you embrace it).Steve Jobs experienced this when he began dropping in on random classes that sparked his interest.\"Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.\"Curiosity is a mysterious and powerful force. Let curiosity guide you. Have Faith in the DotsIn following his curiosity, Steve Jobs dropped in on a calligraphy course for a semester.\"It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture.\"But it had no practical relevance to his life...or so he thought.\"10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me...It was the first computer with beautiful typography.\"You are just a series of \"dots\" - moments, decisions, successes, and failures. Your life is the line that connects them.\"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future...This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4nO1oo__jWE5MpZsRfwEO_6q4py16kwv8WwJybce4FA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMxOTcwLzE2NzEx/MzU5MDctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}