Almost every Christmas, my family and I spend our holiday watching movies.
A particular favorite is Die Hard, the iconic Bruce Willis film that sees the Hollywood tough guy rescue hundreds of hostages from a skyscraper taken over by terrorists.
Not an entirely believable film, but fun. It has some great one-liners.
Usually this holiday movie watching time is quite fun, except for when someone wants to see a film with technology in it.
When it comes to some movies, any time they show tech, they almost invariably get it wrong. Someone, usually me, starts yelling at the screen... "That CANNOT happen!" or "Seriously?!?"
It kind of takes the nog out of the egg nog, if you know what I mean.
There are some movies that actually get technology right, however. Here is a list of them.
Movies That Actually Got Tech Right: https://au.pcmag.com/features/52972/10-movies-that-actually-got-technology-right
But what I'd really like to show you is a personal favorite tech-themed movie, because of what it teaches us about the founder mindset and serendipity. I always like to say that the founder's mind is planned luck.
In "The Imitation Game," we see this clearly.
"The Imitation Game" is the depiction of how Alan Turing and fellow computer scientists broke the cryptographic code that the Nazis were using to send their war plans to each other. This discovery helped end the war and saved Britain and the rest of the world from unimaginable suffering.
What I think this gets right is that as a founder -- or a discoverer or adventurer -- you have to put in a lot of demanding work, and personal sacrifice, to prepare your mind and your product or startup for the simple and elegant answer that makes it work.
You cannot just think the answer into existence.
You have to create a framework.
You have to suffer through the empirical search and discovery.
You have to experiment.
You have to fail at it.
You have to personally go through hell.
In order to....
Achieve an answer that is simple because you created the framework to see it simply.
This Christmas, I leave you with this video clip of the moment that Turing cracks the code. What he relied on to reach that magic moment seemed so stunningly obvious.
But had he not done all the legwork, it would have never mattered.
Merry Christmas
https://youtu.be/zZuqLLdx2YQ
Doug Crets, English Communications Master
AppWorks
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"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
- Alan Turing
The Imitation Game (2014)
📻
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Pay what you want (but not zero) and take a card of your choice at the following locations:
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| Hummingbird @hummingbird_hk (長沙灣)
#奇異博士 #DoctorStrange #BC #BenedictCumberbatch #Benedict #Cumberbatch
#art #artist #hk #hkig #movie #film #hkart #fanart #illustration #Illustrator #watercolor #sketch #sketchbook #painting #paint #drawing #draw #artwork #Marvel
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