I love commencement speeches. They give me a huge inspirational kick in the ass.

You’ve probably heard Steve Jobs speech at Stanford in 2005 — it’s a classic. Here is another one, by Khoi Vinh (who leads the online design team for the NY TIMES) and it comes with a very appealing title (to me at least):
14 years of failure

After fiddling around with a trillion fonts (and zillions of hours of hacking and stabbing them) i just took a pen and a napkin and scanned my fancy handwriting in — I know it’s not perfect, the big L is a bit too wide and the small f misses some girly curly swing at the bottom, but the client is happy and needed it done in ‘98 already (the ys looks perfect though). It ain’t looking to shabby, or?