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Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
Steve Jobs's 2005 Stanford commencement address, built around three stories: connecting the dots, love and loss including being fired from Apple, and death. It is a 15-minute talk on finding work you love.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN returns to it for years as an inspirational talk to send to graduates, founders and anyone at a career crossroads.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- JoshuaG
- Topic
- career and life advice
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 13
- HN mentions in dataset
- 19
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2007–2015
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Jobs' speech is about 1.5 years old. It's probably a classic for this audience, but the few who've slipped through the cracks must not be denied this utterly inspiring speech. We should be so lucky to one day be able to give a speech that …
pashle on Hacker News · 2007-03
In 'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says (text only; video link in comments)This is no doubt one of the best speech i ever heard. It gives me a lot of new perspectives when i heard it for the first time back in 2006. Here's the video: [VIDEO]
hwijaya on Hacker News · 2009-05
In 'You've got to find what you love'That's always been one of my favorite speeches. I highly recommend it to anyone who's never heard (or seen) it. [VIDEO]
mrduncan on Hacker News · 2010-03
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Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.