I truly believe Sarah doesn't have a clue.

hey there,

I was searching for advice about finding investors, and your site popped up - Nice job, by the way!

We recently made a huge guide to finding investors as a small business, and I thought you might like to see it.

If you like it, hopefully you'll link to it from your site as a resource - It could be valuable to your readers at hodsden.org :)

Can I send you the article to check it out?

Thanks so much,
Sarah

Jonathan was watching some interview this morning. The interviewer asked the interviewee, "If you could have lunch with any celebrity, living or dead, who would it be?" An interesting question, one that has easy answers for some, but the motivations for the who are often more revealing than the who.

I would like to have lunch with Hedy Lamarr. The woman chose herself time and time again, with first her escape from Austria, and later with doing things that needed to be done, even if not "acceptable" by society. With no formal training, and a tinkering hobby, she still invented important creations.

So, I'm writing a book review for a book I read last summer (yes, yes, behind on my book reviews), and I came across a note I had made in the book that read, "Von Clausewitz." Not recalling who this person is, I searched for him and recalled he's a Prussian general and military theorist from the early 1800s. Oh boy, I thought, this'll be good. He wrote On War, which, along with The Art of War and The Book of Five Rings, is considered one of the classic military strategy books around. Not having read the book, I can't confirm this, I'm taking that statement off the Intarwebs, but I am interested enough in the book (working towards my 13 books non-fiction for the year), to look for it on Amazon.

And found a half dozen "this book sucks, it is incomplete!" versions of the book.

Okay, then, save myself that ninety-nine cents, and went to my library to see if the library had it. I searched for "On War" and a list of books came up.

"Want to see something neat?"

"Sure."

"Look! I edited this video! I added this, and this, and this. And, okay, you are probably rolling your eyes, 'Whatever, I did that twenty years ago.'"

"I'm not rolling my eyes. I'm excited for you."

When I was a college student, I had this retrospectively annoying attitude that, if someone already did it, I didn't want to learn about it, it had already been done. What I was doing at that time was being an asshole. I am not that person today.

Today, I am EXCITED when someone, anyone, kid or adult, shows me this new thing they learned how to do. I am bouncing with joy at their victories, even when that victory is very, very small. I am going to clap and cheer for that accomplishment, because it is new and you learned it, you did it.

They think someone should do something, but never them. Not me. It’s a classic collective action problem: we know things are bad, but they only affect each of us a little bit. So who is going to take care of it for us? Plenty of people believe in the theory of so-called great men of history, but who believes I am that great man?
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