(Live on The Andy Williams Show, 1965)
Monday, November 17, 2025
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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