Dave Evans
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, I know, but we knew that five companies ago.
I mean, don't you have another idea yet?
And frankly, what they are is they're so stuck on pulling off that impact thing, they become addicted to it and they can't let go.
And then when they finally get to the place where they can't do it anymore, it's an existential crisis.
Well, she too had, you know, she was working in high technology and she went to a great big company and she was writing code.
And she was one of these successful people.
The stuff she's writing, millions, even billions of people are using.
And she's making a good living.
She's working with really intelligent people.
She's growing and learning new things.
Wow, this is working on every front.
Except then, you know, she suddenly realized, I'm just turning the crank.
You know, I'm part of this...
mechanism of high technology you know having people click things through and look at another website does that really matter to me and and am i stuck on this thing forever and i mean she was in her early 20s and already felt like she was not hitting the ceiling she was hitting the wall because she kind of looked forward through the lens of you know techno capitalism and said that's all this thing is forever
You know, there's this magical idea that there is this one place I really deserve to be, my special calling, my special place in the world.
What is the universe inviting me to do?
All these different narratives come around.
There's this lovely idea that I will find it somewhere.
which either has no compromise or just tiny little compromises and really lights up the dashboard of my soul and makes me feel like I am in the right place doing the right thing.