Being a while since I posted, but anyway let's continue. This past weeks I have been "busy" participating in forums, blogs, reading articles, books, watching conferences, anyway I have consumed (can't find a better word) a lot of material and that material changes you, it changed me, the Greek philosophers said that once a man bathed in a river he was no longer the same man before he jumped into the river, meaning we all change constantly, even a little but anything that challenges our intellect changes us after we watched it, heard it, read it, anyway consume it. So, I have consumed a lot of material this past weeks about different topics many of them not related to computer science or programming, the thing is I feel like I have wasted some of my time, we all probably feel that way sometime, so I blame TV.
This past weeks I have been reading about economy, a lot of economy, sadly I now consider democracy and socialism a bad thing, I don't think they can solve society's problems, and I think blaming the government for everything and not taking action to be independent of the government is foolish, I mean I don't wanna be some of this businessmen I see in my country who only whine about the government this the government that, why can't we all be independent enough to look for new opportunities and not depend if some law was approved by congress and all that jazz, but this post is not to talk about this kind of stuff, my point is that I'm not the same man as I was a few weeks ago and I feel as I have wasted my time with many things, for example I watched this great keynote about startups and everyone who knows me well knows I'm the worst kind of employee there is, one who don't have dreams of going solo and making his own business, instead I have ideas, plans, theories, studies and the guts to make the jump so I'm the worst kind of employee, but it's not all bad, I can find success in my own business but turns out I have been wasting my time and I blame TV for it.
So, let me continue with a simple question, why we all have dreams of making the next big company? or why we all shun our dreams and are "happy" making that very small company that we have no hope will get us that BMW we all want? why just the 2 extremes why not something in between because I just found out there's a lot of place in between, a lot. Everyone wants to solve the big companies' problems what about the small companies' problems? We all know (if you don't I'm sorry you are just dumber than I thought) that the vast majority of the companies are the small ones, there are a lot more Pop's and Mom's Cafe around the globe than Verizon-like companies, so why everyone keeps thinking about solving the little guys problems is just not profitable enough, like making 1 million USD per year sucks because Google is making 5 billion, I live a very happy life if I won 1 million per year. So why, why we think this way? Again, I blame TV.
All this TV shows have entertained us since we were very little kids, well guess what they also gave shape to our imagination and our thoughts, so it's hard to think outside the box the damn TV told us "how the world works" and we simply repeat what we learned, we never doubted if TV was telling the truth. To all of you out there by TV I mean any form of indoctrination, being it TV, the radio, what our folks told us, the books in middle school, those cartoons we watched, what our teachers told us at college, what our politicians tell us every day and we never (at least the majority of us) questioned anything, we never analyzed the situation, like all those times where the stupid history books told us that living in the country is the greatest thing after sliced bread and that the city is just gonna damage our lungs because of the smoke, oh yeah then what about if a snake bites me in the country and the nearest hospital is a few miles away, but no those educators who make the books our children (my future children) read thought that indoctrinating them was OK, it's not OK.
I'm gonna end this post with a little advice to anyone who reads this, just be happy, don't do what society or others say you should do, just go out work in what you wanna work, live how you wanna live and be happy, doubt everything they have told you and start analyzing things, you probably are a smart individual, you can find out which stuff works for you, which doesn't and which stuff makes you really happy, so don't be someone you don't want to be, just be happy and do whatever makes your day.
