Form: Diary

I’ve always appreciated my friends. But cancer, experience, and age have made me appreciative of all aspects of life – and friends most of all. And when I look at that collection my friends I am so grateful for people of this moral character and intelligence that I’m humbled by…

Across The USA Travel Notes:
1) Boston to Cleveland ohio was an easy drive. Same for cleveland ohio to rochester minnesota. Beautiful time of year. Green leafy trees just about to turn.
2) Left Rochester, and drove about 20 hours yesterday with two short naps. No idea where I got the energy. 😉 But covered south dakota and wyoming and … reminded again ‘nobody lives out here’. At least gas stations are automated.
3) I spent last night driving across wyoming – which involved dodging something on the order of twenty episodes of deer on the highway. Not exactly relaxing. A real life video game.
3) Montana is gorgeous. I still hold that switzerland bavaria, austria, and italy’s po valley along the alps are the most beautiful places on earth. But Montana is right up there. I should make Missoula today.
4) There are nice proper american people who have high mindfulness, high openness, and proper manners and ethics as soon as you get west and north of chicago and away from the major cities. Riddle me this: How do you get farmer culture in higher density? ;). Caused me to think a lot about environmental demands for mindfulness.
5) I’m in Bozeman Montana this morning at one of the many coffee shops that pepper any college town. They have home made pumpkin pie. 😉 Every time I come here I want to stay.
6) Listened to a bevy of audiobooks on this trip. All were disappointing. Especially Turchin’s. Not necessarily a direct criticism of an intellectual I respect, but a criticism of the inability of the entire field to discover causation rather than mere correlation – when correlation merely encourages more of the same bad policy we’ve spent seventy years advancing.
7) Only drawback to this trip is the Yakima pack attached to the top of the car is a heck of a drag on the airflow and causes even this car to eat gasoline. 😉

Everyone should do this kind of thing. Meeting real people counteracts the news media, the government, and the social media nightmares.

Yes. My daily personal failing: the want to condense into near mathematical parsimony vs the demand for narrative of imagined experience are in direct opposition. 🙁

(Diary)
Do you ever get old enough that you don’t cut yourself by accident with a knife? (sigh) 🙁

(Diary)
I don’t miss owning houses they are a time and money sink. I don’t miss owning companies. Wealth is a vapid legacy. I certainly don’t miss living in airports and hotels. I don’t really even miss traveling, doing business, or learning about different strategies and cultures in different countries. I do miss Ukraine. Every day. I do miss intelligence work. I miss each of my ex’s a bit. I certainly miss my Ferrari. A lot. I miss my dog. A lot. I miss my horse a little – not riding him, but just – well, they’re magical in their own way. A relationship you only feel, don’t think at all. And the ritual of caring for them every day or two is peaceful. Mindful. Like being human instead of a part of this bureaucratic and procedural world we’ve made. Today I have more friends of better quality, morality, respect, and honor than I had during the rest of my life combined. I do more important work that only a few understand. And, perhaps having survived cancers and more, I am more thankful of it than I was when younger.
I’ve become self aware of how thankful I am for everything in my life. And everyone else I know who practices the same thankfulness achieves the same peace of mind. So regular thankfulness is perhaps the best means of mindfulness we can give ourselves.
That said, there is one spectrum of evil in this world, and that is the evil of governments. And I would burn this one to the ground and salt its earth, and start anew, with only minor reforms, that would never again, allow such madness as the arrogance of progressives, idealism of marxists, and folly of the fools – especially our women, to turn a civilizational industrialization of individual responsibility and autonomy into one of irresponsibility, dependency, and procedural and debt servitude – And if I can do much else with what remains of my life it will be to leave behind an explanation of how those of heart, mind, and moral conviction can reverse the great crime brought upon our people, and prevent for thousands of years into the future, the political seditious muslims, the political and marxist jewish intellectuals, the christian progressives, and the folly of the introduction of women into a polity without advancing the law to equally prohibit women’s methods of antisocial behavior, undermining, sedition, treason, and war, whether intuited by the feminine genome, systematized, promoted, and institutionalized by political jews, and used for self aggrandizement and credentialism by men who only generations before had been of merit in demonstrated competency in farming, production, military, and state.
Never again.
Never, ever, again.
That is what I yet wish to be thankful for.
CD

(Diary)
People are awesome. 😉
Today, while doing errands, including a coupe of coffee shops, I met:
– A young black mom with one child and who takes care of her two younger siblings. We talked about motherhood.
– At Starbucks met a young black woman who’s a researcher at Yale. We talked about my work on everything from how to use social media for research to group and sex differences, including differences in lying. (She’s awesome)
– I bought six marshmallow crispy treats from Starbucks, walked next door to the bank, and gave each employee one. Then met the new young white male assistant manager and given we had to wait for some transaction processing, we talked about his career, and living locally.
– Next I met a young software developer from Madagascar and we talked about his life, education, girlfriend, his career ambitions – and laughed a lot.

People are awesome. ;). As long as they’re reasonably self responsible, and you take them as they are, and you don’t want them to be different from how they are.

And it’s only late afternoon. 😉

Curt

(Diary)
So, I live in a condo. In a semi-rural area. Think a rather nice hotel layout. There is a knock at my door. I open it, and there is a man older than I am, who asks “Are you mr doolittle the technology guy?” He wants me to advise him on a tech business offering that he’s developed.

WTH? People coming to my house? I’m not even in the Angel Investment game any longer. This is one of the reasons I left Seattle. So that I could have peaceful anonymity. lol