Guy Kawasaki: Hindsights

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/hindsights.html

by vlad • 18 years ago

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Obviously, the very nature of this site would make most people disagree with #10, so I won't comment. As for #9, I was a little irked he used "joy" to describe Aristotle's eudaemonia.

However, I disagree with #2, beginning with the term he chose to use: "Obey the absolutes." I understand he's trying to say "be a moral person" (in the neoclassical sense), but even regardless if he's right--even if we should "obey the absolutes"--it is improper to start this tenet with "obey." For one, let's face it, we all know the moral sphere is not black and white as described in his comments on #2. However, "obey" implies thoughtlessness regarding one's moral behavior, because these "absolutes" are then taken for granted for societal and biological reasons (respectively popular conceptions of good and evil, and conscience, a largely biological instinct). Of course, we weren't all meant to be moral philosophers, but some consideration of one's moral system is still pertinent to everyone.

Besides that, some of these are fairly standard and self-evident guidelines, albeit targeted to (in content and phrasing) lay people (i.e., eight-to-fivers, pardon the term).

wright• 18 years ago

> I was a diligent Oriental in high school and college.

Orientals are objects. Asians are people.

> Frankly, smoking, drugs, alcohol--and using an IBM PC--are signs of stupidity. End of discussion.

Probably the majority of creative people in the history of the world have used drugs of some type. In fact, that's how we got some of our finest literature and works of art.

IBM PC? Is he still stuck in the 80s?

> There absolutely are absolute rights and wrongs.

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." -- Anatole France

Guy was just a PR flack for Apple which happened to net him a lot of face time and even magazine covers. He doesn't "Think Different", he just got a marketing job and talked up his employer. Fini.

bigtoga• 18 years ago

I've read a few of Guy's books including Hindsights and, out of them all, Hindsights is the one worth skipping for sure. This is just Guy trying to sell more copies of that book. I'm sure some people enjoyed it but I didn't.

jamesbritt• 18 years ago

> You are going to work the rest of your lives, so don't be in a rush to start.

Yikes! What a downer. Doing stuff to pay bills does not have to mean "work". Dopey.

Guy Kawasaki: Hindsights

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