I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.
If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology. . . and you can build software then, around the user.
I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?
When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.
When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.
For years I feared the opening of every elevator, half-convinced that from the opened doors would come a bullet, for me, shot by a man in a tan trenchcoat. I have no idea why I feared this, expected it to happen. I even knew how I would react to this bullet coming from the elevator door, what word I would say. That word was: Finally.
I am a fan of the vampire shows, especially 'True Blood. ' I'm obsessed with it. I got to meet the entire cast at Comic-Con and hang out with them. And that was awesome. I basically died and went to heaven.