Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.
Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.
My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.
I didnt have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L. A. , and I really didnt know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.
Do I really look like a guy with a plan?