a16z comes up in lists of investors who think technology will save us. As an agnostic, I'm neither a doubter nor a believer, but, today, right now, we're looking at the results of a market economy and I'm not particularly inclined to accept the unbridled enthusiasms Mr. Andreesen espouses in the article below. But he's powerful...not like you and me.
Loosely following the blog. As I understand your situation (diagnosis, hospice), kind of amazing that you even care about such everyday issues. Instead of purpose & identity issues.
ReplyDeletePurpose & Identity are 1st & foremost. Every now and then I wander into the hinterlands to see if there's anything that'll help guide my day-trading. This kind of stuff is much easier to make note of. And today I wanted easy.
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DeleteThanks for the prompt!
Purpose & Identity float in and out. The past week I worked on starting a *Death Dialogues* get-together at one of the multi-generational centers. It'd be moderated by my nurse-poet, Jessica Ann Sanchez.
https://youtube.com/shorts/TmTiXJq9_L8?si=yXCEc0z5pjTHm51a
She is busy with other stuff but maybe some day. In the meantime, I'm looking into the administrative details of how and where she could have gatherings.
My market trading is motivated by philanthropic aspirations. Money would be helpful to a few individuals and I can do it from bed...where I spend most of my time.
I'm at a stage where purpose & identity sometimes seem like silly preoccupations; my ego gets subsumed in symptom management; breathlessness, angina and the question of when to use the MAID option take the spotlight.
I interact on an intimate level with a few people. I sometimes note these "happenings" on the blog as reminders, but their backstories are too involved and personal to write about at length. These few interactions, reading & day/swing trading on the stock market keep me occupied. Despite a fierce Germanic under-pinning, I'm constantly evolving, but it's so convoluted and tied in with my relationships there's no way (as mentioned) to do more than note bits and pieces. This is a "web log," a journal, to help keep track of what's happening. I write for myself, not for anyone's entertainment. I want to remind myself to see what Marc Andreesen does with HIMSELF. Like Kipling's elephant, I have an insatiable curtiosity.