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" It&amp;#039;s called flow. That state of being present but unaware of the passage of time, unaware of your body. Your focus is on your objective. There&amp;#039;s complete immersion and excitement. I think many of the great achievements in human history have been the result of that state. I got my first computer when I was sixteen. I wrote Napster when I was eighteen. There was no Internet bubble at the time. My family thought I was playing games and messing around. They had no idea that I was diving into this completely new world. And it wasn&amp;#039;t something I knew how to explain, because I was trying to make sense of it myself. When people classify you, you lose your ability to share the things you&amp;#039;ve learned. The collective effort to improve the Internet is always going to defeat those trying to exploit it. Sometimes I joke that mentoring is manipulating someone for their own best interests. Hippies are really happy, but for some reason that turns people off. I have a view that if somebody&amp;#039;s doing something bad and no one has told them yet, it&amp;#039;s not their fault, because none of us can have complete perspective. The challenge is no longer about building great software and technology. It&amp;#039;s about building a way, or a product, that is able to attach to a person&amp;#039;s life. Often entrepreneurship is driven by insecurity. You&amp;#039;re solving a problem, but you&amp;#039;re running away from something. Technology is not like physics, where there are laws. Technology is changing all the time. Cutting my hair is a good example of a time when my brain is blank. Given that the Internet changed our notion of friendship and connections, and has caused a massive increase in our sense of interconnectivity \u2014 or what some would argue is a false sense of connection, or a poor substitute \u2014 to me, friends are people who will tell you the things you need to hear because they care about your best interest. Published in the October 2013 80th Anniversary issue For more of The Life of Man, go to lifeofman.esquire.com "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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