Isaac Strack
Design Technologist and all-around mediocre soccer player.
Sex Love & Money
Balancing your passion, purpose, and paycheck in the modern workplace
HAVE A PURPOSE
(do something important)
Johann Gutenberg (1440)
Aaron Lufkin Denison (1861)
-Douglas Engelbart
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
- Edsgar Djikstra
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
-Steve Jobs
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
If you don't think that your career will be important or world-changing...
you're right.
HAVE PRINCIPLES
Principles == Values
Principle == Cause
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.
- Bret Victor
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.
Principle == Cause
Larry Tesler
Pierre Omidyar
What Do You Do?
How would you define what Elizabeth Cady Stanton did for a career?
How will you define
what you do
for a career?
-Dolly Parton
Find out who you are,
and do it on purpose.
eBay RUINED ME
DON'T HAVE SEX FOR MONEY
Hugh Macleod
Ignore Everybody (2009)
KNOW YOUR CHIMNEYPIECES
KNOW WHAT YOU ARE
(You are cattle)
Praise
Recognition
Rewards
FULFILLMENT
VS.
BE OKAY WITH THAT
(play the game)
YOU ARE INTERVIEWING THEM
IN-BETWEEN TIME BELONGS TO YOU
DON'T ASK PERMISSION
The best way to complain is to make things
- James Murphy
MERITOCRACY
CARVE IT OUT YOURSELF
DON'T ASK PERMISSION
Sex Love & Money: UVU Talk by Isaac Strack
By Isaac Strack
