12. Wasn’t the prodigy kid programmer....
... no Intel Science Fair, robotics club, programming
classes, research labs, aced SATs, ivy league, etc.
“MIT? That’s in Michigan right?”
21. The important thing is to strive towards
a goal which is not immediately visible.
That goal is not the concern of the mind,
but of the spirit.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
ie: stop worrying, keep working
22. ( Most of them will be crap.That’s ok. )
1. Have (lots of) ideas
23. • Business
• Product design
• Founder blogs
• Hacker News
• Design magazines
• HBS Case Studies
• Take classes in
other departments
• NYT & NPR
• Technical papers from
industry companies
2. Read everything
24. MIT does not teach you how to build (enough) stuff.
I shipped +20 projects before graduating. Almost all of
them were well-paid contracts with flexible hours.
... and I wrote my first line of code during freshman year.
You don’t run a marathon without training first!
3. Develop skills
25. 1. Have lots of ideas
2. Read everything
3. Learn to build stuff
26. 1.01365 = 38.8
0.99365 = 0.03
Inspiration exists,
but it has to find you working.
― Picasso
Raw truth: no substitute for hours
