[VOID] Into the sixth power circle.

[Tom]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Adam Rifkin wrote:

--]
--]A realization that the energy needed to create (and, conversely, to
--]destroy) is an extremely violent energy -- that ideas coming out of
--]their wombs are born violently into the world, struggling for their
--]first breaths, and that every step in natural selection is a naturally
--]violent one. 


"to create , you must destroy....smash a glass and yell  too much joy" tmj


Violence is passion as is love anger hate and joy

With out passion there is samness, bland boring sameness of whole cloth
predictablity.

Some cant live without the samness, they medicate to reach it and yell
loudly at any difference trying thier hardest to make it go away.


But it wont.

--]But this points to a fundamental problem with venture funding: Your
--]brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.  Put another way, all the
--]companies I consider "great software companies" -- Microsoft, NeXT,
--]Intuit, Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP, Tibco, Lotus, Red Hat -- didn't start
--]by getting venture funding.  They started by building successful
--]businesses first, and then taking the funding to grow.  


Power currupts?

Does reaching your first round goals, or getting near to them, change who
and what you?

--]Absolute power, combined with uncompromising vision, is what makes great
--]software companies.


Carefull with that axe eugene.

--]<pushstacktoinvokeSteveJobs>

Steve (i BLOW all my great ideas after they go to market) Jobs?


He should be your guiding light for what to avoid. Good old sBJ has blown
more than you averge 5$ a load CandyCane on Sunset.

--]"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have
--]absolutely no taste, and what that means is, I don't mean that in a
--]small way I mean that in a big way.  I have a problem with the fact that
--]they just make really third rate products."

This is like some one who frequents the Old Country Buffet critquing
MickeyDs.


--]   6. More loyalty and more belief beyond reason.  Time to strengthen my
--]character set and become the font of wisdom I always want to typeset
--]with personally.


Be true to yourself, fuck the noize.




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