Thanks for sharing. I really liked reading it. And good luck in Berlin! Berry Groenendijk [Twitter] @berryg [Skype] berryg
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Remco Wendt <remco.we...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dag Pythoneers, > > Gisteren heb ik op Europython een korte speech gegeven. Bij deze deel ik > die graag met de Nederlandse python community: > > Your beautiful minds > Europython 2014 - Berlin > > Can I humble ask you all to close your laptops and put your phones away > for just five minutes? Be in the here and now with me and please grant me > this time to put some interesting thoughts and connections into your > beautiful minds. And what I can only hope is that maybe today or tomorrow > you’ll think about this a little more. > > For a few months now I’ve been thinking about new ideas of what to do > next. Two weeks ago I was roaming the Spanish desert plains near Zaragoza, > with simple thoughts like: what is going to be my life’s goal? And it came > to me that maybe the nicest thing I could possible do is leave the world in > a little better state then I found it in. > > How to do that? We have learned from peer-to-peer networks, you can have > enormous impact by combining many small decentralised elements in a large > volume. > > And then Europython happens, and it all made sense. > > You see, the thing is we are not mere developers, but engineers building > and thus defining our future society. By doing so we have great power and > with that great responsibility. Do we want a world of control? Or of > freedom? > > On top of that we have quite a unique position. And we should better > realise this, I believe. > > I’ve hired people in my previous companies, and most engineers don’t > _really_ care about their income anymore. They have that covered. Instead > they ask questions like: how much will I be able to develop myself and will > I be allowed to contribute to open source. > > In the Maslow pyramid, we have made the step up. Anybody here has income > security, unless the world collapses. That may not be in your minds, but I > believe it is the case. And this grants us freedom. > > And what happens then? Magic. Our genetic code defines: take care of the > self, when done take care of the other. That is why societies can exist. > Taking care of the other is the next step in our own happiness and we are > lucky enough to have the possibility to do that. > > And the change in mindset required to make that next step is really so > simple. An example from my personal life today: I’ve just moved to a new > apartment in Berlin. The apartment complex has its own alley. It was a > mess. So today I decided I didn’t like to come home to that mess. I just > went outside with a garbage bag and started cleaning the place. The > neighbour that lives above me opens his window and says to me: ‘what are > you doing? are you cleaning the place??’. And I reply: ‘yes I am, by the > way I’m your new neighbour from downstairs, this is my home and I like it > clean. The easiest way to get there is just invest a little time in our > place.’. He replies: ‘that is so nice. I’m thinking also maybe what we can > do is put some nice tables and chairs outside and then when we have nice > weather some of us can have breakfast together’. Two more neighbours open > their windows to see what the fuzz is about. And magic happens. > > My friends you are where change starts. The future is about together, > inclusive. About community. Changing our mindset. The world really is what > each and everyone makes of it. Take responsibility. Thank you for being > you, and for being this fine community. > > <http://about.me/remco.wendt> > [image: Remco Wendt on about.me] > Remco Wendt > about.me/remco.wendt > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-nl mailing list > Python-nl@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nl > >
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