Way more than luck

In the company of everyone, I’ve been listening to Steve Jobs’ commencement speech to the Stanford graduating class of 2005.  Against the background of our humming anxiety about whether students are going to stop paying for their education and hang out auditing our open content for free, his story of learning calligraphy as a freelancing, freeloading, highly engaged college drop-out is full of institutional terror and promise. What if everyone does this? Given today’s understandable emphasis on his thoughts on…

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