Help me by not helping me Give me what I want but not what I need Help yourself by helping me Don’t help yourself by not helping me You want to help yourself by helping me You don’t really want to help me — you just want to feel better about yourself You …
Tag: Change
WHAT You Did, NOT How
There is no delusion more insidious than the delusion that HOW you did it is somehow more important then WHAT YOU DID, There is no delusion more insidious than the delusion that HOW you did it matters at all There’s only what you want to do — then DOING of it When you want …
If You Can’t Take Them With You — You Have To Abandon Them
Abandoning others is condemned Betraying others is condemned But what if it’s necessary? This has nothing to do with taking yourself up at the expense of others With the exception of you removing yourself from their lives, abandoning them Besides that — you’re not “using” them, you’re not getting one up on them You’re …
Anything Stagnates
I often write how man stagnates …but anything stagnates – any entity. If you stagnate – do something new. Do something different. Do things you do different. If an organization stagnates – make it different. Make it do things different. And if you won’t – the difference will come from the outside – …
You’re Not a Bad Person
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 …
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