Sunday, December 7, 2025
return.........................
The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh. The strength of that principle is not measured in ounces and pounds: it tyrannizes at the centre of Nature. We may well give skepticism as much line as we can. The spirit will return, and fill us. It drives the drivers. It counterbalances any accumulations of power.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, as culled from his essay, Worship
with keener avarice..........
For Emerson as for Thoreau, economy means how to live. Failure to understand that means missing Emerson's main point. "The true thrift," he concludes, "is always to spend on the higher plane, to invest and spend, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritual creation, and not in augmenting animal existence."
-Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire
peculiar............
Back in 1975 the musician Brian Eno and the artist Peter Schmidt created a curious artifact, a set of cards containing peculiar instructions: "Honour thy error as a hidden intention." "Ask your body." "Work at a different speed." These were meant to help artists, especially musicians, who had come to an impasse in their work. Eno and Schmidt call the card deck Oblique Strategies because they knew that when an artist is blocked, direct approaches meant to fix the problem invariably make it worse. In a similar way, sometimes you can get better at thinking only by turning your attention to matters other than thinking.
-Alan Jacobs, How To Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
asking......................
Asking leads to answers, and answers lead to more questions. From not knowing, we get to knowing, and eventually to the truth. This is why we must understand that there is no such thing as a dumb question. In fact, a person becomes smart only by asking questions. The more impertinent and relentless the better.
-Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work
cornerstone.....................
The cornerstone of the company's culture was a philosophy Danny called Enlightened Hospitality, which upended traditional hierarchies by prioritizing the people who worked there over everything else, including the guests and investors. This didn't mean the customer suffered; in fact, the opposite. Danny's big idea was to hire great people, treat them well, and invest deeply into their personal and professional growth, and they would take great care of the customers—which is exactly what they did.
-Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
When "elites" aren't very elite..........
Out of disorder and discontent come leaders who have strong personalities, are anti-elitist, and claim to fight for the common man. They are called populists. Populism is a political and social phenomenon that appeals to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are not being addressed by the elites. It typically develops when there are wealth and opportunity gaps, perceived cultural threats from those with different values both inside and outside the country, and "establishment elites" in positions of power who are not working effectively for most people.
-Ray Dalio, Principles for Dealing with The Changing World Order
this bifurcation of perception.............
In the wake of the scientific revolution and certain deadening forms of modernist presumption, the trend has been to sever the bond between objectivity and subjectivity. Consciousness in the modern West has been informed by trends the follow this severance. Subjectivity and objectivity are commonly viewed as opposites, even at odds, rather than being component parts of an already reconciled whole. The hard sciences have sided with objectivity against subjectivity. The human sciences have done the opposite. Errors of all kinds follow from this bifurcation of perception and being into two seemingly incompatible worlds of meaning, especially when one side of the dichotomy is elected over the other for arbitrary reasons. But this is not how Chesterton experienced the world. Arguably, this is not how anyone experiences the world, despite rationalizations to the contrary.
-Duncan Reyburn, The Roots of the World: The Remarkable Prescience of G. K. Chesterton
Saturday, December 6, 2025
sinking or swimming...................
I like people coming into any orbit of mine without any experience, particularly without any necessarily expertise, without having been quote, made. And then you give people more responsibility than they qualify for because in that forge you find out who swims and who doesn't. And if you have that kind of environment out of it's going to come pretty good people.
Barry Diller, as quoted in this post
honestly.......................
The only way to live it is to be as truthful as you can be. With others, of course. But mostly with yourself.
Doing anything else is not living or being in the moment. Anything less than truthfulness is an attempt to distort the past or control the future.
unwavering..................
Let your energy impact the people you're talking to, as opposed to the other way around.
For a recent and slightly cynical college graduate, Randy's sunny optimism could sometimes stretch the limits of belief. Ask him how his day was going, and he would say, "You know, man, I'm trying to make today the very best day of my life." I might have rolled my eyes, but that kind of unwavering positivity turned out to be impossible to resist . . .
-Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality
the hand of order..................
Philip [King of Macedon, 359-336 BC] had no sympathy with the individualism that had fostered the art and intellect of Greece but had at the same time disintegrated her social order; in all these little capitals he saw not the exhilarating culture and the unsurpassable art, but the commercial corruption and the political chaos; he saw insatiable merchants and bankers absorbing the vital resources of the nation, incompetent politicians and clever orators misleading a busy populace into disastrous plots and wars, factions cleaving classes and classes congealing into castes: this said Philip, was not a nation but only a welter of individuals—geniuses and slaves; he would bring the hand of order down upon this turmoil, and make all Greece stand up united and strong as the political center and basis of the world.
-Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy
On coping properly.......................
When I started law practice, I had respect for the power of genetic evolution and appreciation of man’s many evolution-based resemblances to less cognitively-gifted animals and insects. I was aware that man was a “social animal,” greatly and automatically influenced by behavior he observed in men around him. I also knew that man lived, like barnyard animals and monkeys, in limited-size dominance hierarchies, wherein he tended to respect authority and to like and cooperate with his own hierarchy members while displaying considerable distrust and dislike for competing men not in his own hierarchy.
But this generalized, evolution-based theory structure was inadequate to enable me to cope properly with the cognition I encountered. I was soon surrounded by much extreme irrationality, displayed in patterns and subpatterns. So surrounded, I could see that I was not going to cope as well as I wished with life unless I could acquire a better theory-structure on which to hang my observations and experiences.
-Charlie Munger, from the opening of his speech, The Psychology of Human Misjudgment
beyond........................
How do I stave off the cynic's disease and still remain a hopeful skeptic? . . .
Let's sing more that we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude, get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason. Forget logic, certainty, owning, or making a start-up company of it; let's go beyond what we can merely imagine, and believe, in the poetry of life.
-Matthew McConaughey, Poems & Prayers
Cured me of my fear of heights..........
.........Actually, I was more afraid of Mr. Reed, our gym teacher, than I was of being 30' in the air. Losing the fear of heights was just one outcome; I was still afraid of Mr. Reed.
Rules for rules.....................
Freedom is a vital food for the human soul. In the concrete sense of the word, freedom means the possibility of choice. A real possibility, naturally. Wherever there is communal life, it is inevitable that choices will be restricted by rules that are necessary in the interest of the common good. . . .
Rules must be simple and reasonable enough for anyone who wishes to do so, and who has an average faculty of attention, can both understand the utility to which they correspond and the necessities of fact that impose them. Rules must emanate from an authority regarded not as a stranger or an enemy, but which is loved and seen to belong to those it governs. They must be stable, few and general enough to be assimilated into thought once and for all, and not create a conflict each time a decision has to be taken.
-Simone Weil, The Need for Roots
Friday, December 5, 2025
Whatever happens..................
Whatever happens,
those who have learned
to love one another
have made their way
to the lasting world
and will not leave,
whatever happens.
-Wendell Berry, Sabbaths 1998
Not so sure about this................
We call contentment or satisfaction that state of a human being which does not and cannot result in any action. Acting man is eager to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory. His mind imagines conditions which suit him better, and his action aims at bringing about this desired state. The incentive that impels a man to act is always some uneasiness. A man perfectly content with the state of his affairs would have no incentive to change things. He would have neither wishes nor desires; he would be perfectly happy. He would not act; he would simply live free from care.
-Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Can I get an amen................?
The ultimate goal of human action is always the satisfaction of the acting man's desire. There is no standard of greater or lesser satisfaction other than individual judgements of value, different for various people and for the same people at various times. What makes a man feel uneasy and less uneasy is established by him from the standard of his own will and judgment, from his personal and subjective valuation. Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.
-Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
As has been well-said...........
..........a number of times in our corner of the blogosphere, the problem is not too many books, the problem is too few bookshelves. Judging by this post and list, Barnes & Noble will be sending some additions to the collection shortly.
"I think that someone on the left who went through this curriculum would come away with more admiration for conservatism and some doubts about leftism."
Thursday, December 4, 2025
'Tis the season.......................
The Licking County Courthouse is all dressed up for the holiday.
Tonight was the 25th edition of "Sights & Sounds", a fund-raising walking tour of eight downtown churches. Each of the eight offers up a bit of Christmas music and cheer. Several hundreds of local folk braved the chilly night air for the tour. It has become a fun tradition.
Start........................
Many
situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you
start walking.
You don't
need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have
the courage to get started.
-James Clear, from this edition
Intuition....................
Intuition appears to be something that, while inevitably fallible, is often more reliable, much quicker, and capable of taking into account many more factors, than explicit reasoning, including factors of which we may not even be consciously aware. It also underlies motor, cognitive and social skills, and is the ground of the excellence of the expert. The attempt to replace it with rules and procedures is a typical left hemisphere response to something it does not understand – a response that is, alas, powerfully destructive. We inhabit a world in which reason is needed more than ever before, yet in which reason is so narrowly conceived that it drives out true understanding. For that we would have had to learn respect for the power of intuition, not as opposed to reason, but as both grounding it, and the means for it to fulfill its potential in making judgments in life.
-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
a daily challenge........................
Aristotle described virtue as a kind of craft, something to pursue just as one pursues the mastery of any profession or skill. "We become builders by building and we become harpists by playing the harp," he writes. "Similarly, then, we become just by doing just actions, temperate by doing temperate actions, brave by doing brave actions."
Virtue is something we do.
It's something we choose.
Not once, for Hercules's crossroads was not a singular event. It's a daily challenge, one we face not once but constantly, repeatedly. Will we be selfish or selfless? Brave or afraid? Strong or weak? Wise or stupid? Will we cultivate a good habit or a bad one? Courage or cowardice? The bliss of ignorance or the challenge of a new idea?
Stay the same . . . or grow?
The easy way or the right way?
-Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work
Freedom—it's not so easy.................
A free political order is possible only when the fundamental political act is a mutual promise between governor and governed. But no human being can be trusted to keep his or her word when he or she has access to power—a power not available to opponents. Sooner or later, if not in the lifetime of the ruler, then in that of his or her descendants, there is an inescapable risk of tyranny. Freedom can only be guaranteed in a political system where the constitution sovereign is God himself, where he has sought and obtained the free consent of the governed, and where he has bound himself to respect human freedom.
-Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning
seen and valued......................
So whether you're in retail, finance, real estate, education, health care, computer services, transportation, or communications, you have an incredible opportunity to be just as intentional and creative—as unreasonable—about pursuing hospitality as you are about every other aspect of your business. Because whether a company has made the choice to put their team and their customers at the center of every decision will be what separates the great ones from the pack.
Unfortunately, these skills have never been less valued than they are in our current hyperrational, hyperefficient work culture. We are in the middle of a digital transformation. That transformation has enhanced many aspects of our live, but too many companies have left the human behind. They've been so focused on products, they've forgotten about people. And while it may be impossible to quantify in financial terms the impact of making someone feel good, don't think for a second that it doesn't matter. In fact, it matters more.
The answer is simple, if not easy: create a culture of hospitality. Which means addressing questions I've spent my career asking: How do you make the people who work for you and the people you serve feel seen and valued? How do you give them a sense of belonging? How do you make them feel part of something bigger than themselves? How do you make them feel welcome?
-Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Good luck with that.................
To devise a method of barring incompetence and knavery from public office, and of selecting and preparing the best to rule for the common good—that is the problem of political philosophy.
-Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
More about that affordability thing..............
Perhaps the largest barrier to housing availability and affordability in places like California are permitting rules, land use restrictions, and construction codes that make it absurdly expensive, or even outright impossible, to construct new single or multi-family housing. Part of this is a conspiracy of current homeowners to protect and increase the value of their property -- after all, new home construction inevitably reduces their property value (or future escalation) by adding competing inventory and/or by creating congestion and loss of property-value-enhancing open space. Another part of this is "everything bagel liberalism" where every program has to achieve every Leftish goal -- eg we want new housing but it has to have solar and appliances with a minimum SEER and use recycled materials and have a certain number of units set aside for protected groups and create a conservation easement on part of the land, etc etc -- until even units that can get permitted are too expensive for all but the very wealthy.
-Warren Meyer, from this post
the secret sauce..............
It doesn’t matter if you are trying to pick a new skill, or get fit. Discipline is the secret sauce. Do it long enough and it becomes a part of who you are. Then rewards compound. Every seed of talent, when watered with consistent input grows to bear multiple fruits.
-Tanmay Vora, from here
Can I get an Amen...........................?
And it's still the undisputed champion..........
We live in a world of unintended consequences.
-Michael Wade, as he posts on technology and AI
P. S. Check his recommended reading list at the end
Ben Carlson.......................
...........takes a look at the housing affordability crisis:
It won’t make you feel any better as a young person in the U.S. to know that it’s even harder for people to afford homes in other countries around the globe.
But these numbers help put things into perspective that things can always get worse.
If the government doesn’t make this a priority the housing affordability crisis likely will get worse in the coming years.
Editor's Note: The only thing the government can do to relieve the housing affordability crisis is to remove many of the regulatory barriers to new development. At the end of the day, supply versus demand still rules. If it were easier to build new housing, more housing would be built. Once supply exceeds demand, or even matches it, prices will moderate. Any attempt to subsidize home buyers or tenants, will only cause prices to keep increasing. Trust me on this.
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Granville Turkey Trot.....................
My Sweetie has been co-chair of the Granville Turkey Trot for a while now. The 5k run/trot/walk/waddle event, held Thanksgiving mornings, draws a good crowd. Despite temperatures hovering around freezing, over 2,000 friendly folk participated this morning. This is the twentieth year for the event; it has become a family tradition. The Granville Turkey Trot is also a fund-raiser. All of the money goes to the Food Pantry Network of Licking County. Last year the committee wrote them a check for around $130,000. My Sweetie is hoping they top that this year.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
A little bit of psychedelia never hurts..............
All that is needed.....................
If the nation is generous, governments take it upon themselves to cure all the ills of humanity. They will revive commerce, they say; they will bring prosperity to agriculture, develop factories, encourage arts and letters, abolish poverty, etc., etc. All that is needed is to create some new government functions and pay for some new functionaries.
-Frédéric Bastiat, from his Economic Sophisms, Second Series (1848)
no replays.......................
It is often said that history provides us with no action replays. It is not given to controlled experiments. We only learn what can go wrong after it has already done so, and by then it is too late to put it right. In fact, the history of freedom in the modern world can be seen as a testing ground for different conceptions of politics.
-Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning
a bad habit...........................
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
-Thomas Paine, as culled from his pamphlet, Common Sense
the thin fabric...............
He had made a hobby of studying the American Civil War and he had always been disturbed by the passions which it had unleashed in the country, the tensions and angers just below the surface, the thin fabric of the society which held it all together, so easy to rend.
-David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest
choices................
Human cooperation under the system of the social division of labor is possible only in the market economy. Socialism is not a realizable system of society's economic organization because it lacks any method of economic calculation. . . .
Socialism cannot be realized because it is beyond human power to establish it as a social system. The choice is between capitalism and chaos. A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
-Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
life itsownself.................
"The end of being is to know; and if you say the end of knowledge is action—why yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge." Self-knowledge and self-cultivation he now sees not as a means to something but as the ends and goals of life itself.
-Robert D Richardson, Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire
the health of the soul.................
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when they are young nor weary in the search when they have grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. And to say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that the season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more.
-Epicurus, as cut-and-pasted from this letter
Monday, November 24, 2025
Against utopianism............
Utopianism always begins as an awakening. It ends, if it is allowed to run through its phases, as a tyranny of the pure. There is a slower path. It lacks ecstasy and salvation. It is not rough or revolutionary. It can feel like a letdown, particularly to the young and the impatient. It accepts imperfection as the price of freedom. It chooses a decent polity over a redeemed one. History suggests this is the wiser bet. Its lesson is unromantic and, for that reason, trustworthy: whenever we try to storm heaven, we tend to wake up in a very familiar place, counting the costs and wondering how the rope we thought we could use to pull ourselves up became a noose.
Dustin Sharp, as he concludes this essay
abuse......................
History has shown that we shouldn't rely on governments to protect us financially. On the contrary, we should expect most governments to abuse their privileged positions as the creators and users of money and credit for the same reasons that you might commit those abuses if you were in their shoes.
-Ray Dalio, Principles for Dealing with The Changing World Order
A worthy goal................
My only financial goal is to go to bed every night with a sense of calm, knowing my family is OK and that I can spend the next day doing what I want, when I want, with whom I want, for as long as I want.
-Morgan Housel, The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life
consumable otherness...................
Chesterton knew that progressivism and capitalism were bedfellows that would produce unnatural offspring. He was also conscious that the politicization of sex would lead to confusion instead of fulfilling the desire for equality or the happiness of both sexes. Sexlessness, the refusal to acknowledge the God-ordained design of sexual difference, would be the result of the battle of the sexes. Once cut off from its spiritual roots, equality would lead not to fairness but to a culture of lies and the popularizing of consumable otherness. Chesterton was sure that, in the name of equality, standards would be attacked and what Pope Benedict XVI would later name a "dictatorship of relativism" would become the norm.
-Duncan Reyburn, The Roots of the World: The Remarkable Prescience of G. K. Chesterton
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Not sure if this is good or bad................
Roughly 66% of US households own real estate, and for the typical American homeowner, that property makes up roughly half of their household’s net worth. . . .
The US housing market alone was worth a hefty sum of $55T as of September 2025. For context, the entire US stock market is worth roughly $62.2T.
learning.........................
The best are always learning.
Read like crazy.
Think alone.
Keep a journal.
Write stuff down the moment you see it.
Review regularly.
Memorize the big ideas to fluency.
Attack your best ideas.
And never get high on your own supply.
You don't have to be gifted. You do have to be deliberate.
-Shane Parrish, from this edition
Why philosophy......................
We want to know that the little things are little, and the big things are big, before it is too late; we want to see things now as they will seem forever—"in the light of eternity." We want to learn to laugh in the face of the inevitable, to smile even at the looming of death. We want to be whole, to coordinate our energies by criticizing and harmonizing our desires; for coordinated energy is the last word in ethics and politics, and perhaps in logic and metaphysics too. "To be a philosopher," said Thoreau, "is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust." We may be sure the if we can but find wisdom, all things else will be added unto us. "Seek ye first the good things of the mind," Bacon admonishes us, "and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt." Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
-Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy
act..........................
. . . that action is the answer. Thinking about your problems will never solve them. Waiting around to feel like doing something means you'll never do it. It taught me that no one is coming to save you. You must save yourself from yourself. You have to force yourself to move make little moves forward, all day, every day, especially when you don't feel like it. . . .
Waiting for the right time. Waiting to feel ready or a little less afraid. Waiting for someone to come along and tell you that today is the day to start. The problem with waiting is no one is coming. The only permission you need is your own.
-Mel Robbins, The Let Them Theory
Opening paragraphs..........
I've always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world.
A prescriptionist at heart, I've always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream. I've always believed that art emulates life, not the other way around.
I've been finding that tougher to do lately.
-Matthew McConaughey, Poems & Prayers
the whole bundle.................
When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt. I hope and get discouraged. I love and I hate. I feel bad about feeling good. I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.
To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side, I learn who I am and what God's grace means. As Thomas Merton put it, "A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God."
The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is a gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.
-Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel
a member..........................
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes: yet, with all that, God Himself gloried in becoming a member of the human race. A member of the human race! To think that such a commonplace realization should suddenly seem like news that one holds the winning ticket in a cosmic sweepstake.
-Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
Monday, November 17, 2025
Sixty years ago........................
(Live on The Andy Williams Show, 1965)
Eric Barker..........................
...................embraces Albert Camus.
Camus defines “The Absurd” as the tension between the human desire for meaning and the universe’s refusal to provide any. Meaning is not waiting for you like an unclaimed bag at a sad regional airport. It’s not included in your welcome kit at birth. The universe just shrugs and says, “lol, no.”
utmost clear-sightedness...............
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
the health of self-forgetfulness....
I know for a while again
the health of self-forgetfulness,
looking out at the sky through
a notch in the valley side,
the black woods wintry on
the hills, small clouds at sunset
passing across. And I know
that this is one of the thresholds
between Earth and Heaven,
from which even I may step
forth from my self and be free.
the health of self-forgetfulness,
looking out at the sky through
a notch in the valley side,
the black woods wintry on
the hills, small clouds at sunset
passing across. And I know
that this is one of the thresholds
between Earth and Heaven,
from which even I may step
forth from my self and be free.
One can dream..................
. . . those societies that draw on the widest range of people and give them responsibilities based on their merits rather than privileges are the most sustainably successful because 1) they find the best talent to do their jobs well, 2) they have diversity of perspectives, and 3) they are perceived as the fairest, which fosters social stability.
-Ray Dalio, Principles for Dealing with The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Sunday, November 16, 2025
My hero, regardless...........
He advocated no sure cure for all the sorrows of the world, and doubted that such a panacea existed.
Ten maxims.................
1. Complexity kills more companies than competition.
2. Long-term greedy, not short-term stupid.
3. Commitment owns you. You don’t own it.
4. The best seek out the details.
5. Failing fast works in software, not restaurants.
6. There is no balance. You make choices.
7. Obsession isn’t a problem. It’s an advantage.
8. People want to feel special in a world where they don’t.
9. The greatest risk is underinvesting in what works.
10. Build something worthy of those who believed in you.
More proof (as if we needed any)............
.............that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Enjoy your NFL Sunday. Mother nature has cooperated and the leaves are all to wet to rake! Hooray!
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