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This is a living archive of my thoughts, experiences, and hard-earned insights, drawn from an unusual life. Here you’ll find reflections on the food I’ve eaten, the things I’ve bought, the people I’ve encountered, the places I’ve seen, the books I’ve read, the quotes I’ve kept, and the trends I’ve spotted and capitalized on.
I write this for you, my children, those already here and those yet to come. Daddy loves you more than words can hold. I want each of you to live lives you’re proud of. This is my thinking, in my own voice, left here for you to explore. I hope one day it proves useful.
If, by some unlikely chance, I’m gone before I can guide you in person, let this stand as a poor substitute. But in the more likely case that I’m still here, let this serve as an intellectual archive, a record that I held these convictions long before you were born. May that give weight to my words, and credibility to the wisdom I hope to pass on to you.
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No amount of money that I am going to give to charity will atone for the ass fucking I’m going to give you in this business. If we had come together in some other way I feel certain that we might have been something akin to friends. But that can never happen now. Despite the…
you have a very, ahhh, uncompromising view of a certain exercise of personal initiative that we prefer to frame in more artfully indeterminate terms. Not that I expect that to mean anything to you. There are only three people in life you can never fool—pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. We Don’t believe in hard work…
If you think that state-change, being one with the world, and being at peace is so awesome, you should check out the great work that the Tibetan monks have been doing over the last 1000 years or so. They are chill, really at peace, and can even lower their body temperature at will solely through…
Eat to live, don’t live to eat Isn’t it funny that great restaurants always serve you something weird and absurd like seaweed-foam-on-a-cracker. I think that they don’t have the balls to compete on the food that people could legitimately compare. If you order the seaweed-foam-on-a-cracker, how do you know whether they were done properly or…
times of peace are when the wise prepare for violence There’s a time for subtlety and a time for action!’‘There is never a time for recklessness, Leo. Or for vanity You have it in you to be a great man, but you cannot let yourself be swept off by whatever emotion blows your way. Battles…
You can make a bloody fortune in this racket and maintain just a small portion of your soul in the process. I offer it to you in a voice that was playing inside my head at the very time. It’s an ironic voice, a glib voice, a self-serving voice, and at many times, a despicable…
Using violence/and or coercion to advance social change usually backfires. It is like trying to fast grow a rose by yanking on it. Rather than letting the patience of sun and water do the job for you. The true progress of mankind is multi-generational and involves the gentle and peaceful parenting of children. “We scarcely…
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