A familiar fellow, by naess the 3rd
Good friend,
I am writing this at 1:15 am. My sleep habits are sickening me, I hope yours are better.
I have nothing for you, feel free to file a reclamation. Though, I did come up with this title which I thought was snappy, so good for me. It doesn’t mean anything though.
Lately I’ve been thinking about authority and power. Resources, goods, materials. Doesn’t that resonate with your inner primitive monkey nicely? We love those things!
Sorry for calling you monkey.
I don’t have any nice conclusions about these things, but man if these things make my brain smell.
Like, how some people are able to own shit ton of resources? Jeffrey Antoni Bezos for instance has quite a few of those dollar coins huh? I made up his middle name by the way. What are you gonna do about that?
It’s funny, one time I sent Woz an email and started it with “Dear Piotr Michael Wozniak…” for no reason.
To this he replied:
wherefrom Michael? my never-used second name is "*****" :)
for some reason, this mail landed in Junk
It wasn’t funny, but James thought it was hilarious, which made it funny. Nothing funny about this at all. But James added the funny, by thinking something not funny was funny.
Anyways, the Jeffrey guy, by god if it makes my brain spin. That guy’s wallet must be pretty bloated huh?
When I’m doing my little projects, I feel on my backbone the dedication and months I have spent on it; I pour all the hours and effort on this. I have done so much. This is my baby.
I am DISGUSTINGLY zoomed in on the project. AND THEN….
…I can’t help but think some succesful man (possibly with a sweet-ass suit) coming up to me and holding this freaking “big picture” aura around him, telling me “that’s a nice project”. (He owns several companies, to which in comparison my ant farm project would be a stock of laugh.)
The fuck? Nice project! I’m putting everything in it, and doing all the work!! NICE?! Fuck you, aura boy. That’s a name for cheese by the way in finland. Aura cheese. It’s pretty good to be honest.
He’s right though, it is a nice little teeny weeny project. This aura man could easily pay peanuts, and get the same result in a day by snapping his fingers. The same result for which you used months for. And I’m not talking about Bezos level guy, but some relatively experienced guy that has some capital and has been running various businesses and knows what he is doing.
I guess I’m singing about harms of zooming in, and projecting my lack of experience in the business field.
But for the zooming-in, there’s couple versions: like grass-level, 1on1, network effect kind of spreading like a virus zooming-in, which is a good thing when you are establishing a metaphorical node onto our world, and planning to turn it into a hub.
Then there’s this disgusting obsessive zooming-in, just because it’s yours and you want to observe and look out for your baby 24/7, while missing out on the big picture, the masses, the mountains. Of course it feels heavy and significant, because you are witnessing every tiny detail that is happening, but it doesn’t change the inherent value of the thing (the peanut value, which is ok, but you do want to grow it into a mountain one day, don’t you?)
Good luck my friend man, I wish you all the best.
Niko