Advice in interesting times

Posted May 18th, 2009 at 3:45 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor

 One Comment / Filed in: Conferences/Events

While President Obama was inspiring university students at Notre Dame this weekend, our own Jerry Yang was doing the same at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (minus the right-to-life controversy).

Breathing inspiration into anxiety-ridden and debt-addled college graduates in the worst economy since World War II is a tall order. But Jerry reminded them of the resilient human spirit and that great things often crawl from the wreckage in the worst of times. After all, he and David Filo created Yahoo! in a downturn in the early 90s. Jerry proffered six bits of advice — ranging from not letting the headlines get the grads down to taking advantage of the incredible tools (e.g. the Internet) at their disposal to being ready to take strange roads that might not be in their master plan.

You can read the full transcript here. Or enjoy the video (Part I, Part II), courtesy of BigIslandVideoNews.com.

Nicki Dugan
Blog Editor

Tagged: event, jerry yang

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gag | May 19th, 2009 at 8:54 am

I loved the advice described in points. I however today realized everything we know is in optimal state, like our body temperature or bp for that matter the temperature of the sun our something else in nature of human behavior. It is sad to think that after all that is sad and done, this place seems nothing more than a big lab and we nothing but lab rats.
This video and transcript makes one think about possibilities about science and knowledge that there is today.
Thank you Dr
Right now i dont know how much in life is hardwork or luck. I also dont know why certain people play a certain role in life, all i know is today i discovered ‘optimal’ as a word is very important and hold big meaning.
Again those where great points, i loved them.

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