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“You can spend a hundred grand on a branding firm to come up with horseshit and then focus-group the hell out of it for another hundred grand, or you can do it on your own for free.”
You learned more by listening, and by speaking less your words tended not to come back to bite you.
Was there really any real meaning in the lives being led by people? Were we all just waiting for…nothing? He had come out of the theater back then both
Samuel Beckett’s tale of two men desperately waiting for something that they could not even begin to define.
to be a success in the way that success was normally defined, at least in America.
Waiting for Godot,
Sometimes a little shoe leather and the semblance of a personality and a few well-formed questions might just do what artificially intelligent thinking and petabytes of data hovering in fake clouds couldn’t.
The place was lit up like a Christmas tree, and there were exotic cars parked in front, including an old but perfectly restored cherry-red Duesenberg Phaeton.
“What were you doing before that?” “Did some time in the Army.” “Why?” He had expected her to thank him for his service like everyone else, so this threw Devine a little.
When in doubt, say nothing. When not in doubt, double down on that advice.
There was simply too much to process. And whenever that happened to him, he had focused back on the basics. Take one step, figure it out, and go on to the next step. And the one after that. At some point it would start to make sense.
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