"The most important thing in life is to be free to do things. There are only two ways to insure that freedom — you can be rich or you can you reduce your needs to zero."
-- John Boyd
Outside of that, there aint much left to say. I'm sure I'd much rather build a business. Again. I think I can do that.
This is the most difficult question I’ve been dealing with for the past 5 years. How much should you care about people who ignore your best advice? The answer is, I think, protect what you love and stop believing everybody wants your love and protection. Condescension is disrespect. So, basically, live free or die. Watch me live free.
Now since I abide by John Boyd's dictum, I've been pursuing the barbell strategy. That means prepare to be rich and prepare to be broke. In other words, work hard for the moolah and practice ultimate risk management. But right about now I'm reloading the rich end of the spectrum. I'm going to make some money. Because I can.
What I don't think I ever realized is how much I genuinely am interested in learning how to do things so that I can actually do them without embarrassing myself and then getting better, and how much other people just deal in excuses and rhetoric instead of learning competence and practicing for excellence. And I didn't realize how much respect I gave the latter form of good intentions. I'm becoming shorter with my patience on that score. And it's something my kids have taught me. It's a wonderful thing to learn.
So I waste time being a grumpy teacher, because I actually want to smack sense into people. My whole life I've been part of the responsibility tribe. I don't really know much how else to do it. Anyway, I think I see the end of this blog on that horizon, or a repurposing of it. Maybe I'll just get a domain and park it somewhere as a big set of PDFs. It's quite a lot. It would be a major step. But I realize that as a writer, I don't much care to answer the questions people are asking, and I'd really rather do the thing I want to see done.
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