Isaac Strack
Design Technologist and all-around mediocre soccer player.
Balancing your passion, purpose, and paycheck in the modern workplace
(do something important)
Johann Gutenberg (1440)
Aaron Lufkin Denison (1861)
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
(especially to yourself)
The activist lifestyle is not just for social activism. As a technologist, you can recognize a wrong in the world. You can have a vision for what a better world could be, and you can dedicate yourself to fighting for a principle.
When I see ideas dying, it hurts.
To me it feels like a moral wrong. An injustice.
It's not an opportunity--it's a responsibility.
Find out who you are,
and do it on purpose.
(They aren't teddy bears!)
Hugh Macleod
Ignore Everybody (2009)
(You are cattle)
VS.
(play the game)
The best way to complain is to make things
- James Murphy
(is friggin' amazing!)
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change.
And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
I think it's dishonorable to stay stupider than you have to be.
WHAT TO DO WHEN IT'S YOUR TURN
(and it's always your turn) (2016)
We willfully create the illusion that we have no choice because it's frightening to be free.
But the deeper we look, the more we realize just how much choice we actually have. The choice of which roads to take and, more profoundly, which ones we choose not to take.
(or not profound?)
Do it or do not do it -
you will regret both.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
By Isaac Strack
Design Technologist and all-around mediocre soccer player.