SILICON VALLEY...
Located on the south of the San Francisco Bay area, California, it is home to many of the world's largest IT companies.
Every serious aspiring IT professional should be familiar with Silicon Valley. I digress.
Of the many lessons one can possibly learn about Silicon Valley, there is something very astounding, yet very easy to ignore....
Located on the south of the San Francisco Bay area, California, it is home to many of the world's largest IT companies.
Every serious aspiring IT professional should be familiar with Silicon Valley. I digress.
Of the many lessons one can possibly learn about Silicon Valley, there is something very astounding, yet very easy to ignore....
Bill Gates,
Paul Allen,
Bill Joy,
Steve Jobs,
Steve Wozniack
And more recently...
Mark Zuckerberg
And many others.
Paul Allen,
Bill Joy,
Steve Jobs,
Steve Wozniack
And more recently...
Mark Zuckerberg
And many others.
They all had/have strong afilliation to Silicon Valley, and the valley consequently leaving it's mark on them. It is no doubt that many of the great successes achieved by these 'genuises' they owe to Silicon Valley. This is beyond their ingenuity, it is about what the community communicates to them-IT, it is about the fact that been in that community brings them close enough to other IT professionals, and of course keeps them up-to-date with recent happenings & breakthrough in the IT industry.
It would dawn on me that...
Silicon Valley is to IT what Hollywood is to acting or what Times Square or Nashville is to a writing.
Silicon Valley is to IT what Hollywood is to acting or what Times Square or Nashville is to a writing.
Does it mean that all IT professionals must go to Silicon Valley? No. Much more than the skills, talents, intelligence, there is something association and environment does in accelerating growth and progress.
Now this write isn't about IT, it is about you, and yes about me!
How often does our association & the people we hang around contradict our supposed plan/purpose/
How often does our association & the people we hang around contradict our supposed plan/purpose/
I once heard about a greenhorn with a breathtaking voice, had an ambition to impact the world with his voice and songs, but.....
ALL his friends were sportsmen! Good ambition, wrong company. Musicians go to the studio, not to the field.
ALL his friends were sportsmen! Good ambition, wrong company. Musicians go to the studio, not to the field.
So dear friend, what does your association say about your dreams and ambition?
It's time to find your Silicon Valley, and relocate there....it may be the singular action you need for the breakthrough you so desire...
...for birds of same feather flocks together...
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