Are you a dot?
In June 2005 Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple Computers and Pixar Animation, delivered the commencement address to the Stanford University graduating class. A full transcript of his speech entitled Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish is available here.
He speaks of love and loss, and death; but it is his story of connecting dots that comes to mind as I contemplate how God is working in Africa.
I imagine it’s in an earthly sense that Jobs said, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking back. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” [click to continue…]
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Colossians,
Genesis,
Matthew,
Romans
Book review: The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, by Hernando de Soto.
“Sendero Luminoso!” A name that struck so much fear in the hearts of Peruvians in the 80’s that they uttered it only in a whisper. Yet of all the terrorist movements since World War II that had any realistic potential to form a national government, only this one was decisively defeated on the battleground of ideas.
Not poor, but underserved
The task of making The Shining Path politically irrelevant was accomplished primarily by ideological means. Hernando de Soto, of The Institute of Liberty and Democracy in Lima, offered an alternative vision of Peru’s poor. Rather than see them as the proletariat, he showed that they were in fact budding entrepreneurs whose greatest desire was not to bring down the market economy but to join it. [click to continue…]
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