Beautiful! Can't wait to see you all at the next meetups and conferences! :)
2014-07-28 7:39 GMT+02:00 Nicolaas Heyning | L1NDA.nl <nicol...@l1nda.nl>: > Nice speech! > > Nicolaas > Op 26 jul. 2014 18:51 schreef "Remco Wendt" <remco.we...@gmail.com>: > >> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Python-nl mailing list > Python-nl@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nl > >
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