Ambitious goals
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I spent awhile reading "The Friendly Orange
Glow" yesterday. It's a pretty solid book about
the history of computing and all the
technologies that were innovated earlier than is
commonly known by a research group at
Urbana-Champaign that was trying to figure out
how to use computers to teach classes all the
way back in the '60s.

One of the main things the book keeps making me
think about, though, is how much you can
actually do if you let yourself be intensely
ambitious and encourage people to just try shit
and be creative.

It's been giving some focus to what I want to
keep doing in my non-profit work. Sometimes I
feel like I get dragged down by how small
everyone thinks, how many people have just
already given up on trying anything that would
actually be transformative.

I don't want to be like that.