Good Will Hunting
3/3/20231 min read


I read an article about the movie "Good Will Hunting" today. Actually, it started with something about Matt Damon delivering the commencement address at MIT. In the movie, he played a janitor at MIT who solved some really complex equation written on a blackboard one night that no one else had been able to solve. I had forgotten about that movie but man, what a classic? So many relevant, deep and introspective themes packed into the movie. Even the smartest most confident people need help sometimes. Feelings of success and failure. Men's relationships. Therapists. Love. Purpose.
Makes me feel like rewatching the movie to see if it's as good as I remember. Also popped in my head because I'm reading a book "A Truck Full of Money" about Paul English, the founder of Kayak and another Bostonian that did not grow up in privilege but achieved some measure of success. It sounded a lot like Good Will Hunting.