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Goes to show that anything you enjoy, if you think about it hard enough, can be applied to startups. It's all human experience. Feynman said it as "The whole un
by seregine 18y ago
Goes to show that anything you enjoy, if you think about it hard enough, can be applied to startups. It's all human experience. Feynman said it as "The whole universe is in a glass of wine."
http://hackvan.com/brain/msg00058.html http://hackvan.com/brain/msg00058.html
Personally, I don't like this example. I love Murakami's novels because they contain mystery and loose ends, and they don't pretend that human lives neatly wrap up into stories. Murakami doesn't tell me what to think, he shows me enough complexity and paradox to make me think. The blog post, on the other hand, is name-dropping him to repackage the same motivational bullet points.
- hugh 18y agoIndeed. I was expecting a lot more from the title than it delivered -- perhaps some kind of in-depth discussion of how the largely somewhat bizarre plots of Murakami's books can be related to startups. Maybe the end of the world in Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World tells us something about how to cope with time pressure, or sitting at the bottom of the well in The Wind Up Bird Chronicle is something to do with getting your best work done in isolation. Or, er, something. But nope, just a list of random platitudinous advice which could be related to just about any successful person.