How I Failed at What Matters Most, And What it Taught Me
“Wait, Is the World on Fire?!” What the…What the Hell Do You Think We Were Trying to Warn You About?
How do you feel these days? Looking around the world, I’d bet you might feel a little bit like me. Exasperated. Here’s the Washington Post, finally, finally asking, for example…is everything on fire?
What…what the hell do you think we’ve been trying to warn you about?
For…how long, has it been…anyways…at this point?
I’m going to tell you a story, about me, and then we’re going to discuss a world, a civilization, on fire.
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So. This…everything on fire thing. Allow me not to be artificially humble for a second. A few years ago, I had to make a choice. Was I going to…continue being…my Don Draper corporate self? Or was there sort of more to life and intellect and the point of me than that? By that age…
