How to get a Standing Ovation

I’m beyond grateful for my experience at Microsoft Ready in Las Vegas. I was just on a flight to Paris, and got inspired by the guy a few seats away from me to write about my time in Vegas.

I hope you’ll be able to learn from my experiences!

The guy a few seats from me on my plane is eating what seems to be a really really good chocolate bar. I have never seen someone so passionately munch on an O’Henry. I don’t know this guy’s story, but I feel like this chocolate bar is the best thing that’s happened to him this week. Maybe month. This is a problem; he’s passionate about a sugar cane contraption that’s deteriorating his organs.

Just like most teenagers apparently, he’s caught up in all the wrong things. I mean… out of all chocolate bars… O’Henry?!

Young people have a lot of passion, but if they don’t have good things to care about, they’ll use it on O’henrys. Everyone cares about something, but, most people only have shitty things to care about.

Growing up, people always told me that I was way too over my head with my desires.

As a 14-year-old, that went through 1 year of fake friendships, classes that made my head hurt of boredom and frankly just terrible teenagers, I was not about to have 3 more years of that shenanigans — I had 0 patience to sit through high school.

No patience meant lots of bias to action: when I saw the opportunity to start working on things that mattered, I drove right in. All…