"So today I am 28 years old. When I was 24 I used to look at other Associates at venture capital firms who were 27 and 28 years old and think to myself “well, I’m four years ahead of these guys.” When I was 26 and founding my first company I used to look at 30 year old founders and think “well, I’m 4 years ahead of these guys.” Now that I’m 28, I look around at my peers and I’m pretty much right smack in the middle, not really “ahead” of anyone. And what’s worse is, 2 years from now, I’m going to look around and start to say “well, I’m 2 years behind these guys.” It’s already happening. I spend time with a guy like Chris Hughes (26 I think) and leave thinking “well, I’m 2 years WAY behind that guy.”...
While it may make sense in light of your internal narrative, to an outsider like me it's immensely distracting. So much so that I ended up not caring about whatever point you were trying to make. Instead, I was trying to figure out why people try to write like angry disaffected hipsters.
Well, it's certainly a fool's errand to strive honor or recognition as ends in themselves. However, one may hope that being truly outstandingly useful in society may have the side-effect of social recognition.
There are several things that make me smile, grin, chuckle or groan:
Launch codes being found one character at a time
- "Plasma to the Face" when the game of Tic-Tac-Toe is found to be a draw
- The long list of scenarios
- The completely gormless expression on the General's face during the playout of the scenarios
- Falken typing "Hello Joshua" so quickly and without looking.
That said, and put in its time, it's a surprisingly good film. I remember watching it in the cinema - it is better on the big screen - and it was there I learned about the existence backdoors and a few other things. That started my interest in hacking. Before that I'd just written a compiler and a booking system.
