Here's a list of my recent obsessions. Recent meaning in the past week or so

1. 

Aaron Levie

being the 

Michael Jordan

founder of the 

cloud computing era

2. People are shortsighted in their desires. They think they want something right away, like to be a designer/programmer/founder right away. But I was thinking about the story of 

Taylor Otwell

-- founder of 

Laravel

-- and how his grandfather and his work ethic inspired Taylor to be the kind of developer he ended up being. That grandfather in the middle of 

Arkansas

could never have imagined "I want to inspire my grandson to build a very developer friendly 

PHP

framework and have over 100K Twitter followers." Such a thought is absurd. And still we live hoping for short sighted things like -- I want to be X,Y,Z thing. If we live a truthful life, seeing with clear spirit where our desires stem, we will impact the world in ways we can't imagine. Quit thinking you want what Instagram/Youtube/FooPlatform is selling you that year.
3. Value based offers vs job based ones. If you're learning how to be a painter, you'll do better by selling some value/outcome than saying, you can paint, let me paint for you. You'll get a job in the latter way but the offer will be weaker.