Lolita's Fist

You know one of my jobs is I teach ordinary people to work on computers, right? For many years, people have said to me, why don't you do it for yourself? You don't need your boss, you can do this, why let him take a cut? And I don't see it like that. He's a drummer, warm, personable, loyal, reliable. He also provides services to me as my manager. He deals with the client, sets up the online meetings. He makes sure the payments happen from the client and to me. And... here is the epiphany about interdependence - he provides momentum. Doing things alone is much more difficult. Interdependence means he comes to me for stuff, I go to him for stuff, he can jump in when he has time, I can jump in when I have time. And when I jump in I learn what he knows to pass that on, and then I have another skill. And he comes to me. He doesn't think he can do it all, and so I am responsible to him and him to me. That is impetus. That is momentum. I don't want to be splitting my a...

If you prod me in the mornings, this pops out. Someone with a lisp sent me a text about Thamus and Theuth. This was my reply: I don't agree with Thamus who says to Theuth that writing will make people stupid and lazy because they won't use their memories. I think those people are speaking about knowledge and not ideas.  Knowledge is just the sticky stuff (giggle) of ideas. Knowledge is the least important because you can Google it. Ideas are the precursors to knowledge. Ideas are unique and specific to each person. Ideas are what we reach towards when we reach towards people. In community. Ideas may or may not make their way to Google. Ideas live like butterflies.  Ideas float in the ether. The more ideas you are exposed to the more you create. If you had to go speak to Socrates and Plato and Sappho and Steinem and Peterson and Larsen and Hite and Faludi and Ehrenreich every time you wanted to swirl in the world of ideas you'd have to invent time travel an...