Another Year Gone By

Another school year is coming to an end for us. A great group of my advisees is graduating this year- unfortunately into a tough macro situation. Our commencement is at the end of the month.

The Channel Wire reports that "Google CEO Eric Schmidt told University of Pennsylvania graduates to turn off technology and look more toward the importance of people.

Speaking at Penn's commencement at Franklin Field in Philadelphia on Monday, Schmidt advised, "you need to turn off your computer, turn off your phone, look at people who are near and around you and decide that humans are the most important things, not the other aspects," according to the Philadelphia Daily News.

"You cannot plan invention. All you can do is try very hard to be in the right place and be ready," Schmidt also told graduates, according to the newspaper.

Schmidt also noted the differences between graduates today and those of his college days in the 1970s. "We had Tang. You had Red Bull. We had VCRs that held an hour of programming and cost $700. You have iPods that can upload 15 hours of videoin a minute. We didn't tell everyone about our most embarrassing moment; you record them and post them to Facebook and YouTube every day. I'm so happy my record for misachievements isn't around for posterity. I'm looking forward to yours to be there for many years."..."