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“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.” —Jobs

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This, combined with the serenity prayer [0] have helped push me to try getting involved in fixing problems I never thought I'd be involved with.

We can all make a positive difference in the world for those still living, and those who have yet to live.

[0] God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

That's an incredibly cynical thing for a man like Jobs to say, given his life, especially late in it, was mostly just ordering people to invent things, and then acting like a generational genius because the massive amount of people under his purview invented things.

Why do people keep saying this? The direction of someone driving towards a thing is just as important as people working on that thing. Otherwise we may not actually have gotten anyone working on that thing at all. It's like saying a director is not important and actors should just do whatever they want.

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