You’re not perfect — but you probably are NOT a “bad person” Bear with me We humans are sometimes too binary (and sometimes not binary enough) When things really matter — things like life and death — we learn to be decisive, we learn to be binary Things like good and bad We learn …
Tag: Change
Broken
I want you to realize that most men are broken Most men are broken in some way Deep within It’s hardly obvious A hidden bug in a program, or minor hardware damage — not a bad metaphor Some way most men break in some point Usually many points One does continue to function …
To Change Is To Be A Traitor
To change is to be a traitor To change is to betray To change is to abandon the former and embrace the new To change is thus to betray the former The word betrayal implies the negative But what negative? Whose negative? What’s negative? The traitor? The betrayed? The idea? The ideology? The …
Doesn’t Create Value
trading doesn’t create value marketing doesn’t create value selling doesn’t create value swindling doesn’t create value none of the above create value those activities just move value from one place to another this is evident and incontrovertible so why do you do this? you do this because you are confused you chase …
What Do You Want More?
“What do you want more” is a good question Priorities are by definition relative (something is more important then something else) Merely stating that something is “important” or that you “want” something is insufficient You have to state what it is more important then, What do you want more then (something else) Furthermore: …
Injustice For Injustice
You don’t pay for injustice with injustice Then you are unjust Then you are unjust and then get paid with injustice, again Injustice only ends when you end injustice You are the world
So You Heard There Is Something Wrong With The World
So You heard there is something wrong with the world You might have seen a lot in your life — but instead of focusing on everything that you’ve seen — you take this HEARSAY — and decide to focus on that You might have done a lot in your life and you might …
Neither Innovative Nor Traditional Can Be Appraised
You want to know what’s the next big thing going to be You want to know what’s the next big thing NOT going to be You want to know where to put your resources: your time, your energy, your capital, your attention You live in the world therefore you’re interested in the world therefore you’re …
There Is No One To Put In Place (But You)
there is no one to put in place there is no one to put in place but you there is no one to put in place but you, putting others in place is a distraction from putting yourself in place from climbing the mountain yourself there’s no one to put in place …
Anything But (The Thing) Is A Distraction
Anything BUT (the thing) is a distraction Either you do the thing — the right thing, the most important thing — or you’re distracting yourself Whatever else you do, it well may be, and surely will be, of great value (that’s what makes it a perfect distraction, a perfect excuse) But there is only one …