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A few words on Jeff Bezos’s post

Yesterday I was asked what was my “opinion” on the now infamous Jeff Bezos post on Medium . I am not going to link or even quote from that post, which by now must have reached 150 Million views. [I’ll gladly offer my site for Jeff to guest post…why does he have to go to Medium ?…There’s a better site…]

Brian Koppelman, the producer of the show Billions, was quick yesterday to put this in his character’s Axe style: ” What’s the point of having fuck you money if you never say fuck you to people blackmailing you over your dick pics. Good for Bezos.”

Brian is wrong as much as he is right. We understand he loves hedge fund billionaires and produced a brilliant show for us.

Number 1: There is no such thing as “fuck you” money.

Number 2: Always hit the dirtbags first, which Bezos did by taking the story into his own hands, revealing it himself before any third-party could do it.

Number 3: Privacy is a very serious issue. Some are wondering how that communication got into the hands of the tabloid. In fact, the photos and files you send over the phones rest on the servers of your service providers, they don’t just vanish into the thin air after you’ve send the text or picture.

Number 4: I’d say that Bezos did a fine job of “Catch and Kill” (at least how I understand it) because once those photos get published if they do, nobody could care less about them. There isn’t anything in there that is not already known. They’re really irrelevant. There will be zero impact from their publication.

Number 5: I wish every man would be half the man Bezos is. Now every man out there wished he had half his money, or 1/1000th of it, but even if they did, they couldn’t handle themselves.

Quote of the Day: “If you’re a man, you either handle yourself or you get handled.” -Miami Vice

I’ll finish quoting Brian again, who was productive on this issue yesterday:

“Fact is, public shame, loss of job, works if we let it. And we usually let it. That’s why I applaud Bezos.”

And it’s not what you’d expect.

Let’s start with old people. Somebody might say: “I’m 35. I’m not old. Old is 45, or 65.” Yes, right. See you in ten years and you’ll just switch numbers.

Everybody is old.

Old people getting old: it’s not just bodies age. The memory data bank is getting larger, too.

“I remember when 10 years ago I was…”

Are you listening to the same music you listened to in school?

We need to dump that cache memory.

How often do you say or think:

“Years ago, there was a gas station in this place.”

Your memory load is getting larger. Pretty soon you’ll be like your old computer: clunky, slow, unresponsive.

You need to do a serious inventory of how much of what you’re thinking is past as in memory.

I know, it’s hard work. Reduce the past to ashes. Reduce thinking.

Whether it was “good” or “bad” it doesn’t matter. There is no good and bad.

Eckard Tolle said : Time is mind. Spend less time thinking. Shrink the cache memory.  Time is a series of NOWS. No more past. present and future. 

Watch yourself. You’re seriously aging when you remember too much.

What you should be doing: For example: spend much time looking for new music to listen to. (doesn’t matter if music is old, as long as it’s new to you).

You’re as good as you’re not remembering often. Because you have no reason to. 

I have been going through the science fiction novel Empire of Silence: Sun Eater: Book One by C. Ruocchio and I recommend it.

This is a tale of a young palatine [noble], Hadrian Marlowe, who runs away from home, from his father and his father’s rule. Faith is not kind to the young noble who ends up far away from where he intended, in a backwater world, first destitute living in the streets and canals of a capital city, then fighting in the pits as myrmidon at the Colosseum. He gets captured and held captive for his fortuitous genes by the Ruler of that system, disavowed by his father. He kills the high priest of the land, the leader of the Chantry in a duel. Then he gets to fight the enemy race of the mankind, a race by the the name of the Cielcin.  Why? How? …because he can speak their language.

Life gets rusty when you get hit left and right, front and back.

For you seldom land where you aim.

But you can still aim. All you can do is AIM.

“The man who hopes for the future delays its arrival, and the man who dreads it summons it to the door.”

“The future might come only in its own time, but the scholiasts teach that there are many futures, and it is only the crashing of the waves of time and possibility against the interminable now that makes the world. It is not the future that is present in Ever-Fleeting Time but the futures. Freedom-freedom of thought and action- matter and are guaranteed because the future is not. There are no prophecies, only probabilities. No Fate, only chance. The present time is not when we are, but what we do.” –Empire of Silence

Weaklings will not understand that. That’s alright, we don’t need them. Let them stay home safe and sound.

“If you’ve never left home,  you will never find yourself.” -Max Cantor maxim #76

Hadrian uses a knife to sharpen a pencil. He says that when he doesn’t feel well he draws. “The tools we use help adjust our thinking.” 

Buy Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio (Amz link)