Jage's comments

Yeah, academia... never was a fan.

A couple gems for life though, the bit about old age stuck out to me. I've learned that from my dad, who attests to having never thought about getting old and now spends lonely nights drinking himself to bed. Pretty depressing but very little anyone can do about it... Just know you're going to get old one day, you're going to die, and then get over it.

Times are bad....

And yet Groupon obviously is doing alright.

Using your logic, shouldn't one be bullish on Groupon considering it'll make MORE money once the economy improves ? Using your logic of course....

My real problem with all this negative talk is that it's become a fad.

Groupon is gonna crash! It's a ponzi scheme! It's not worth anything!

Since so much sentiment is against Groupon, I tend to favor it more. Don't get me wrong, they've had a lot of problems, but it's definitely not the total disaster so many make it out to be.

Don't forget that contempt and fear are just as irrational as exuberance and greed.

Steve Jobs and Sean Parker don't actually seem like they'd do well in school. Their temperament and personality types run counter to how school is structured, while in companies people are more capable of getting away with a kind of free-wheeling style.

I'll speak for myself when I say I hate school. It's not about education, I wonder when it was. Not anymore for sure, more about that piece of paper at the end of it all that says "you can get a job now". It's about not having to do the work yourself and on your own initiate. It's about teaching you to be an employee.

I never saw the value in it. If one's considering going for it any time, even once in a college, my advice is GO. Even if you fail, at least you'll sleep a little better at night.

Educations' flaws are deep in the system itself. It comes from the Industrial mentality of worker lines and an Enlightenment paradigm of the mind, both of which at best are fallacious. Education can't be given. You're not extracting valuable skills by bullshitting that English paper.

Education is something you honestly have to desire and seek.

It probably make the most sense to donate the 500k to liver transplant organizations, seeing how Steve was involved in that towards the end of his life.

And yes, it is more than a little ironic someone would donate money to colleges in honor of a college dropout.

Though it may seem cruel to say this in his death, looking at Steve Jobs' behavior when he was younger really makes me wonder whether he was a psychopath

Anyone else see the commonalities?

I support legalization for ideaological reasons, but that doesn't at all sound accurate to me

Drug use will almost definitely sky rocket if drugs are legalized, at least initially. We can't really say what will happen, say, 5-10 years after, because legalization in this country is unprecedented.

But ask most users if they'd use more if it was legal, and you'll get your answer. Ask some fence sitters who are too scared to try drugs if they'd use currently illicit drugs if it was legal, and you'll get your answer

With all due respect, who cares?

It could be that much more naive and ignorant people are submitting applications now than before. 99% of these applications could be hogwash and disposable. That may not be the case, but who's to say it isn't?

The quantity of applications doesn't actually indicate anything except greater name recognition and maybe more recent entrepreneurs, but even that is a stretch

I "humbly" agree with the point that Jobs was apple to appreciate deep philosophical ideas; unfortunately, prevenient grace is not one of them

Not trying to make any value judgements on Christianity in general, but prevenient grace is an Augustian idea, and as such is one of the more repressive ideas of Christian theology

It directly contradicts Buddhist teachings of Karma

I'm not convinced. Jobs was incredible despite his flaws, not because of them. There are plenty of asshole liars that go nowhere, but Jobs' passion and vision was so strong people are willing to look past it

I still think you make an interesting point, and I find it compelling to look at idols when they were young and nobody cared.

Bringing such idols back to earth can help one realize that we are all in fact human, and as such all have tremendous challenges, flaws, and potential

I'm sure Steve would appreciate people citing Christian theology on a page about him, seeing how he was a Buddhist