Archive for March, 2007
as vendors of Lucifer matches
Henry David Thoreau:
It would be worth while,
once for all,
fairly and cleanly
to tell how we are to be used,
as vendors of Lucifer matches
send directions in the envelope,
both how light may be
readily procured
and …
How to do only that which you can do
How do we get started on a path to doing things that express our genius?
“do only what you only can do”
It was hot. Having Chernobyl just a few hours away didn’t help.
I was lying on my back, slung between two seats in the bottom of the row boat. My self-appointed advisor sat sweating in the bow. His fat white …
Passion metric
I battle an internal suspicion that I’m too naive for business. Maybe I think too big, measure obstacles as too small, and expect too much? But maybe we live too small, ask too few important questions, focus on the middle …