Fantastic post (despite its age and recurring postings on HN, I had not come across it before), and this indeed is a great line.
I've met a few people who overdo this, though: they try to map everything new to a past success situation, but sometimes this is obviously a bad idea/poor match. So great people also have an internal compass that tells them "this situation is _different_."
I aspire to work with people that carry the ambition to seek such seminal events in their lives (rather than "business as usual" and finishing early), events that are worthy of serving as such reference points later. Life is short, and you only have one, so you had better not waste it.
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Fantastic post (despite its age and recurring postings on HN, I had not come across it before), and this indeed is a great line.
I've met a few people who overdo this, though: they try to map everything new to a past success situation, but sometimes this is obviously a bad idea/poor match. So great people also have an internal compass that tells them "this situation is _different_."
I aspire to work with people that carry the ambition to seek such seminal events in their lives (rather than "business as usual" and finishing early), events that are worthy of serving as such reference points later. Life is short, and you only have one, so you had better not waste it.