{"id":1575,"date":"2010-07-21T19:31:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2010-07-23T07:28:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T13:28:12","slug":"we-are-what-we-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"We are What We Choose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/news\/archive\/S27\/52\/51O99\/index.xml\">The inventor of Amazon.com gave a really good convocation speech<\/a> to the class of 2010 at Princeton. He focused on the difference between the gifts you&#8217;ve been given and the choices you make.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy &#8212; they&#8217;re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you&#8217;re not careful, and if you do, it&#8217;ll probably be to the detriment of\u00a0your choices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/news\/archive\/S27\/52\/51O99\/index.xml\">The whole thing is here.<\/a> -via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/10\/07\/its-harder-to-be-kind-than-clever\">Kottke.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inventor of Amazon.com gave a really good convocation speech to the class of 2010 at Princeton. He focused on the difference between the gifts you&#8217;ve been given and the choices you make. What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}