(You want me to do what? Jeez. I am creating a complex product at insane financi

(You want me to do what? Jeez. I am creating a complex product at insane financial risk, and late in delivering it, as well as successfully advancing not just political philosophy, but very possibly the discipline of philosophy itself, and working on building an intellectual and political movement, while living in a strange new world where nothing is financially, politically or militarily stable. I just recovered my health, two years after nearly kicking the damn bucket with my third serious illness. … I can only do so much OK? I’m only freaking human. Damn… It’s freaking interesting to watch drama on tv, but living it isn’t exactly for the feeble. Entrepreneurs – and philosophers for that matter – make a difference not so much by being smarter, but by working more hours on a single problem than anyone else is willing to. Kant, Smith and Einstein – not to forget Keyenes – just spent absurd numbers of hours on their ideas. Ideas aren’t that special – effort is. Spending 80,000 hours on a problem is just very hard to do, and it takes something on that order to solve a problem no one else has been willing to. But you know: we are all just freaking human. Ok? Me especially. Hospital rooms suck. Avoid them. I would like to avoid seeing another one for a decade if I can. Lead lined rooms protecting others from the radiation you’re giving off is not something I want to experience again. Nor is the conversation that i might wake up and not be able to use my facial muscles. )