[Arm-netbook] I Have An Possible Chance To Meet An ARM Senior Manager

[luke.leighton]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> On 10/08/2012 06:45 PM, luke.leighton wrote:
>
>>   it's only someone like me, basically, who is... how-to-say... an
>> attention-deficit asperger's-style "wandering mind" who gets kicked
>> out of free software forums for being too intelligent
>
> Not to mention modest. ;)

 ha!  not sure if you're joking here or not... :)  there's... ok, i've
been attending some seminars/sessions, asking for help in getting my
head straight about the scale and scope of this project.  some of the
insights about myself that i've been made aware of very recently are a
bit... eye-popping, you know what i mean?

 for example: having this idea of this project, yes it's incredibly
ambitious, but it's *not* self-serving, it's serving *others*.  many
people might consider that to have such ambition is "immodest" or
"greedy" or (in the case of my own daft and sad father, he claims that
i have "a desire to be famous and so it will fail".  so sad to hear
that from your own father, really).

 however, this is so utterly far from the truth that it makes me
double-take and feel slightly dizzy when people try to tell me things
like this [you're greedy, you're doing this to be famous so it will
fail, you're immodest etc. etc.].

 what *is* interesting is the insight that, having come up with the
idea, if i *DO NOT* carry it through, *THEN* i am being - ironically -
utterly selfish.  isn't that just hilarious?  you have the idea to
help so many people save money, and help reduce e-waste on a massive
global scale, if you *don't* put that idea into practice, it is doing
millions of people - and the environment - a massive dis-service.

 against that background, gordan, you see why i couldn't tell if you
were being half-serious or just entirely joking? :)

l.