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RIM

1.] Maximize the resources for learning.

What made the RIM’s story fascinated me was the history behind the co-founders starting from their high school lives. I could relate to their story because I also belonged to a technical school in high school and we had that same upstairs and downstairs curriculum. In their stories they had been youthful whiz kids because they already possessed the knack for manipulating the technical stuff with the academic stuff, and they somehow can understand the relation between the theoretical and practical. Lazaridis was fond of experimentation with the tool jobs and integrating it with the knowledge on the paper jobs. This growing interest with exploring utilities had carried on till college but with a bigger array of technology and facilities. Lazaridis’s toolbox and electronic apparatuses in high school was surrogated by University of Waterloo’s computer and networking technology that, fortunately, was accessible to students. He managed to seek for a way to get a hand on these amazingly-built, science novel machineries which was heaven to his sight. Every inquisitive pupil must follow his example of seeking and seizing each opportunity to take hold or control of these available tools for learning. In high school, he was one of those few who engaged in shop work, but it paid in the years that came. The tools in their school were for free accessibility and he had not wasted any chance to grab this educational resource and turn it to a scholastic development endeavor. Likewise, during college, students are somehow permitted into accessing the technology, he also used his social networks to gain access and acquire related knowledge about it. To briefly summarize my thoughts, here’s his statement that crystallizes my first learning, “..the exposure you had in high school and in the university was actually preparing you for a decade and two decades out.”

2.] Predict the plan

I believe that one of the most important insights I had learned in this interview was that if people possess the ability to see potential on things, they are the forefront of luck for the opportunity available to them to make maximal use of the perceived potential. Across the contents of the Lazaridis interview, it was pretty much emphasized the potential of wireless technology perceived by the influential people in his life. He was well aware of the endless possibilities for wireless applications and this conviction was further supplemented by the counsel other people had repeatedly imbibed in his mind. And this was a great blessing because he has already predicted the future of wireless. And his instincts were perfectly right for wireless boomed in the market as it was proven to be launched with other applications to speed systems and provide convenience. In a start-up mindset, one must think the present as a time that would immediately become obsolete in terms of technology, for technological revolution is still in our midst. For a start-up to become prosperous, one must think ahead, very ahead of the present time. Products, services, and certain technologies will take time to develop, but big ideas now will be the ones that will mold tomorrow. What I am trying to claim is to just simply think of the future today. Just like wireless that wasn’t popular at the time of its conception, it received immediate success in the following decades as people recognized the brilliance of the idea.

3.] On dreams and ambitions…

Space was one of Lazaridis childhood fantasies since childhood and coincidentally in the future that came, wireless technology was an essential component to function its processes efficiently. But at one given opportunity to fulfill these juvenile aspirations, he had taken the offer down for the reason to focus more on the main objectives- wireless data, not space technology. The story goes on telling that it was the appropriate choice for Lazaridis to select. Turning down for once was not a big matter at all because it was just part of the bigger picture. Because of his full dedication to the development of wireless data, Blackberry surfaced and this technology incidentally became a chief proponent to the NASA Space Systems. So it is sort of just pausing for a moment or two then returning to the pending agenda. It takes time to develop something, and in that case, patience made a difference. At the end of the tale, wireless technology which Lazaridis developed fully fulfilled the childhood ambition that he turned down from his past. At the end of the day, he achieved fulfillment despite of the initial postponement. Every happening had a broader purpose after all.