doing big things for love
July 11th, 2007 by Gen KanaiAwesome, awesome, awesome!!!
Clay’s presentation from Supernova 2007 goes from the Ise Shrine to perl to software support (comp.lang.perl.misc) to AT&T to love.
“perl is a shinto shrine”
“you will make more accurate predictions about software, and in this web-driven world, about services, if you ask yourself not ‘what’s the business model’ but ‘do the people who like it take care of each other?’ That turns out to be the better predictor of longevity.”
“it does mean that the ability to aggregate non-financial motivations, to get people together outside of managerial culture and for reasons other than the profit motive, has received a huge comparative advantage. And it also means that many of the future commercial opportunities are going to be inextricably intertwined with that kind of work and those kind of groups.”
“We have always loved one another. We’re human, it’s something we’re good at. But up until recently, the radius and half-life of that affection has been quite limited. With love alone, you can get a birthday party together. Add coordinating tools and you can write an operating system. In the past we would do little things for love, but big things, big things required money. Now we can do big things for love.”
July 13th, 2007 at 3:47 am
Gen, just found about it, and I’m in love with this video too! Thanks for quoting in writing, as it helps non-English speakers to get it. I’ll send visitors your way
July 20th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Gen, thanks for the link. If you haven’t already, you should check out this book. It discusses similar ideas, but with a spin towards bizlove.
http://tinyurl.com/3d3ufq
Let me know if you’re interested, I’ll bring my copy to the next on-site for you.
August 3rd, 2007 at 11:55 am
Thanks for sharing this Gen. Very, very inspiring!