The idea of something that takes effort without instant gratification is unbearable.
What inspired me to write The Graysonian Ethic is that I am aware of many sons and daughters who rely on their parents very late into life. I know 40 year olds who are going grey and still live in their parents basements and have very little in terms of their own personal prospects for the future. I'm already 38, and my son is going to be coming of age just as I retire, so I can't really do that. Because of that, I need to do everything I possibly can to help him achieve success early on, because I can't support him for his whole life.
The book's name is based on the nichomachean ethic by aristotle. The book was apparently a work where he was trying to impart good ethics onto his son. The cover is a line drawing of my hand with my son's hand holding onto one of my fingers. It represents fatherhood and the passing of wisdom from one generation to the next.
I live in research mode, I'm always trying to find out more about the world. I wrote the book by choosing a subject every weekend and writing an essay on that topic. Once I was completed, I sent it to my editor to edit, then before publishing I went through one last time with a text to speech to make sure it sounds good and completed the formatting.
The era before my son was born had a lot of spare time, so it wasn't too hard to balance writing with my other responsibilities. An hour or two one day of the weekend was quite manageable. The fact that these are very heartfelt essays meant they were largely easy to write.
To me, success isn't about sales or reviews, it's about whether the process and the book helps me to raise a good son. The process itself really forced me to consider what I find important, what sort of lessons I want to pass on and how I want to do that, and what lessons need to be reinforced and what lessons maybe aren't as important. Some chapters in retrospect I really started to realize how little current events matter in the grand scheme of things, and what really matters is the broader ideas that you need to think for yourself because even good and just causes can be turned to evil if you stop thinking for yourself and let someone else do it for you. The book has gotten nothing but positive reviews so far, which I'm thankful for.
The book's name is based on the nichomachean ethic by aristotle. The book was apparently a work where he was trying to impart good ethics onto his son. The cover is a line drawing of my hand with my son's hand holding onto one of my fingers. It represents fatherhood and the passing of wisdom from one generation to the next.
I live in research mode, I'm always trying to find out more about the world. I wrote the book by choosing a subject every weekend and writing an essay on that topic. Once I was completed, I sent it to my editor to edit, then before publishing I went through one last time with a text to speech to make sure it sounds good and completed the formatting.
The era before my son was born had a lot of spare time, so it wasn't too hard to balance writing with my other responsibilities. An hour or two one day of the weekend was quite manageable. The fact that these are very heartfelt essays meant they were largely easy to write.
To me, success isn't about sales or reviews, it's about whether the process and the book helps me to raise a good son. The process itself really forced me to consider what I find important, what sort of lessons I want to pass on and how I want to do that, and what lessons need to be reinforced and what lessons maybe aren't as important. Some chapters in retrospect I really started to realize how little current events matter in the grand scheme of things, and what really matters is the broader ideas that you need to think for yourself because even good and just causes can be turned to evil if you stop thinking for yourself and let someone else do it for you. The book has gotten nothing but positive reviews so far, which I'm thankful for.
Disney is a particularly good example of the benefits of a robust public domain: They made much of their fortune on derivative works of public domain works.
Disney didn't create Snow white, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, The story Sleeping Beauty was based on, the little mermaid, Alladin's wonderful lamp, the hunchback of notre dame, or Hercules. They took works that were in the public domain and created new works based on those stories that were massively popular in their own right.
One of the reasons the Internet is so vibrant and creative compared to the establishment media is that it isn't really following the rules, so it takes content and remixes it or reimagines it and comes up with all kinds of completely new stuff. There's entire communities and subcommunities and sub-subcommunities doing that sort of thing, and if copyright were being properly applied then it would all immediately disappear.
Meanwhile, the establishment wallows in the one hundredth remake of Superman's origin story! We've got the copyright until 2033, might as well make the most of it!
(Turns out it wasn't life + 50 years, it was life + 70 years for works created after 1978 since changes to the copyright act made in 1998 which expanded the term from life + 50 years)
Disney didn't create Snow white, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, The story Sleeping Beauty was based on, the little mermaid, Alladin's wonderful lamp, the hunchback of notre dame, or Hercules. They took works that were in the public domain and created new works based on those stories that were massively popular in their own right.
One of the reasons the Internet is so vibrant and creative compared to the establishment media is that it isn't really following the rules, so it takes content and remixes it or reimagines it and comes up with all kinds of completely new stuff. There's entire communities and subcommunities and sub-subcommunities doing that sort of thing, and if copyright were being properly applied then it would all immediately disappear.
Meanwhile, the establishment wallows in the one hundredth remake of Superman's origin story! We've got the copyright until 2033, might as well make the most of it!
(Turns out it wasn't life + 50 years, it was life + 70 years for works created after 1978 since changes to the copyright act made in 1998 which expanded the term from life + 50 years)
"They made it seem like there are people who exist that dont agree with me and I didnt like that."
Nobody cares about Chris Christie
Go debate Mitt Romney, Nikki Hailey, and Jeb Bush or something
Go debate Mitt Romney, Nikki Hailey, and Jeb Bush or something
> Anthropic drew from Apple's terms of service to cover deficiencies in the UN Declaration of Rights
Morality defined by corporate t&cs.
Thanks, I hate it.
Morality defined by corporate t&cs.
Thanks, I hate it.
Some of the schools in the article that haven't produced a single literate student cost over $56,000 per student per year!
"This small scandal in a single charter school proves the charter school doesn't work."
Meanwhile, in public schools: https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/14/math-reading-chicago-schools-report/
Meanwhile, in public schools: https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/14/math-reading-chicago-schools-report/
They are doing exactly what they need to do.
Ensure they retain access to $5+ trillion in ESG funds by avoiding apologizing in any way.
Attack their critics
https://nitter.net/ConceptualJames/status/1651316101580480513#m
how Leftists do a coup, though, so don’t think you can do it back to them easily. Expect they know how to resist it. They do. It’s actually easy, unless you’re an honest person or care about being seen as one. All it takes is: Have no shame, ignore attacks, do DARVO:
“Deny, Attack, Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender.” It’s standard narcissistic abuse tactics and involves gaslighting, twisting meanings, crybullying, and other symptoms of psychopathy