The Crucial Thing Commencement Speakers Get Wrong About Success

As one writer sees it, social media and commencement speeches both leave us with grand narratives that can do more harm than good.

In a speech at Singularity University a few years ago, Google founder Larry Page told a rapt audience that he evaluates prospective companies and entrepreneurs by a single metric: Asking them if what they're working on is something that could "change the world."

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