Random Notes: People Over Profit, By Dale Partridge.

7 core beliefs throughout large companies that have been able to remain "honest" (Rather than going through a cycle of deception):

1. People Matter
2. Truth Wins
3. Transparency Free's
4. Authenticity Attracts
5. Quality Speaks
6. Generosity Returns
7. Courage Sustains.

Contradictory Values

I realized something. I value 2 different things that conflict.

1) Supporting local business.
2) Minimalism.

I've been using a 3 month free trial of "apple music". After the trial, I can pay $10/month to continue this music streaming service. On one hand, Apple is an enormous company that does not NEED my support. BUT, keeping things digital helps me keep my life more minimalistic.

I could go to the local record store and spend $10 every month and probably get a couple records. If I buy 25 records a year, after 10 years I've got 250 of these things taking up space in my house.

Clutter.

I had never really thought about this contradiction of values. I want to support my local record store, but I do not want more "stuff".

I guess there's only hope for eateries.

invisible badge of honor

Writing is like the unpacking of an abstract painting.

At first- it appears to be an undefinable mess. But as its explored, stroke by stroke, line by line, you make sense of the mess until it's really all quite digestible and simple.

If you we're to start with digestible and simple, though, you would not appreciate the perspective nearly as much.

An earned perspective is always appreciated more than one that's handed out like napkins.

So writing in it's simplest sense is most confusing then. It's like a painting you desperately want to share, but you don't want anyone to see it.

Or if you do share it- it's best left with some ambiguity to chew on; which actually, more likely, will just leave it disregarded altogether.

So I guess writing is more like an abstract painting that was never unpacked, never shared, and left out by the dumpster after years of collecting dust in the closet.

I guess writing is extremely meaningless and beautiful like that.

Or maybe that's just how it feels when your trying and wrap your head around a world choosing to drown themselves in cat videos and pornography.

You just scribble abstract sentences together in between Netflix episodes so that you can wear your invisible badge of honor.

I just realized why people have kids.

So that they can explain the world to themselves in the most meaningful and true way.

Slackers.