The Big Star

Do you or to what do you aspire?

After an afternoon and evening of watching the world of collegiate amateur football championships in the local culturally designated year of 2010, I turn to the autobiography of Bill Bates, entitled "Shoot For The Star."

Do you attract tens of thousands to hear you speak on topics that reinforce people's belief in themselves?

Is nothing short of the safety and security of the entire species your primary objective?

Would you keep the magic show running on the side while pursuing a reality beyond comprehension?

If all I did here was entertain us, then I have failed to grasp the fuller impact these words made.

In every key click that results in an electronically-stored letter/character lies not what I would call a deeper meaning but the points along a curve and building blocks of a story that accumulate or accrue.

We can sit around and write business plans that make VC funding fun and games. Many do.

Did you ever have the opportunity to enjoy a dinner conversation with John Updike and Salman Rushdie, hearing Salman say he read your book in a tone of voice that told you he didn't want to speak out loud what he thought of the contents?

The longer I delay the announcement of the start of the next phase of existence the Committee of 7.5 has planned for us, the longer I stagnate.

Don't dream big. Implement big plans successfully, building in timeframes for loopbacks of lessons learned along the way to the completion of every phase.

I have sat here tearing apart nanothreads in the fabric of time comprising a lesson we long ago recovered from.

More later...