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My public speaking teacher always drilled into our heads: Know your audience. Thinking back on when I was a 7th grader, I can say for certain that I was never i
by edawerd 19y ago
My public speaking teacher always drilled into our heads: Know your audience. Thinking back on when I was a 7th grader, I can say for certain that I was never interested in finding a cheap way to innovate, or that I lived in the center of the startup world. Maybe it was just me, but when I was in 7th grade, I was primarily interested in making millions of dollars. Why not mention that you can make tons of money being a hacker (visual: Pictures of successful young founders from Google, Yahoo, YouTube, etc)? There's nothing wrong with that. =)
Of course, now that I'm older money is not the reason I enjoy hacking. But it definitely helped me get into it when I was younger.
- far33d 19y agoAnother good point.. Thanks everyone. Your comments are definitely helping. I think I'll retarget a bit. Instead of saying "cheap way to innovate" I'll focus on how it's easy to build fun stuff that people will use and enjoy. I'll still mention how everything will be software in the future, but will probably skip the center of the startup universe stuff.
- juwo 19y ago"when I was in 7th grade, I was primarily interested in making millions of dollars" really??