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Ex-Lib at 50: The $80 book and the elephant in the room

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Friday, September 30, 2016. The $80 book and the elephant in the room. I had one of my higher sales this morning - $80 (I am not a high-end deader like the Daddy of All Dealers so $80 is at my high end) - thereby making my five-hour total shlep to the rust belt in August worthwhile. I had bought that book there as well as a few others I have already sold. Partly because of tight polls and, admittedly, partly because of what is described in this. Article. I wish there were some kind of pill [legal! And th...

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The Dream Warrior: Do we all have to be David Bowie now?

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Do we all have to be David Bowie now? Was the one creating the changes. What can we learn from this regarding disruptive ideas and disruptive technologies, and especially what it means to the question: how do I, as an individual, navigate the fluid world created by all this disruption? Technologies that give people equal access just bring that impulse into being in the physical world. Equality and decentralization are seriously disruptive ideas. Take for example this presentation. In my own life I have f...

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The Dream Warrior: I've been a baaaaaaaad boy!

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I've been a baaaaaaaad boy! In the past few years I've broken into an old woman's house and stolen her jewelry, murdered some people (but don't worry, I hid the bodies well), gone to the office in flowing robes and a long head scarf, killed rats with my bare hands, eaten snakes. Did I mention that I did these things in dreams? And these are only the things I would mention in a blog. You have to take one with the other. But once you realize that dealing with the nasty and scary dreams is often what yi...

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The Dream Warrior: Do you dare look into the crystal ball?

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Do you dare look into the crystal ball? The fist time I saw the crystal ball in the Hall of Gems and Minerals at the Smithsonian Institution. When I was 11 years old, I was stunned. I walked around the corner and there it was: 106.75 lbs. (48.5 kg), and 12.9 inches (32.7 cm) in diameter; pure, flawless, natural quartz. I couldn't take my eyes off it. I circled it, fascinated by it. It was at least a half hour before I could tear myself away. But vision comes in many ways. In the dream, an old friend of m...

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Ex-Lib at 50: Unaffordable health care

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Tuesday, August 16, 2016. It wouldn't be a plan if I didn't talk about money. In my love of breaking things down into subtopics, and sub-subtopics, I will refrain from talking about that elephant in the room but rather its spawn: HEALTH CARE. It's a pretty big expense in my plan to go solo. The ACA provides a subsidy, based on income, to health care insurance premiums. If your income is low enough, you get almost-free health care: Medicaid or, for your child, the state Child Health plan (CHIP), a pro...

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The Dream Warrior: The priceless gift of disorientation

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The priceless gift of disorientation. What planet is this? Your eyes open in the middle of the night, and you have no idea where you are. Not only that, you can't even recall who you are and - if the disorientation is deep enough - what country you are in or what century this is. It can be frightening. And it can be very exciting, and ultimately fulfilling. if you are flexible enough to accept the gift. The stronger you build the bridge between your dreams and your waking life, the more the two begin to ...

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The Dream Warrior: Who was that masked man?

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Who was that masked man? While doing some fanatical spring cleaning in the study - unearthing things in nooks and crannies that hadn't seen the light of day in years - I found a pair of eye shades my son had brought home as a complimentary gift from a transatlantic flight. He gave them to me, for some reason, and I promptly set them aside. And now, two years later, they've resurfaced. And I instantly knew why. I need to get better sleep. But rather, "Oh shit! And I've recorded detailed dreams in my journ...

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The Dream Warrior: What business are you in?

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What business are you in? Wanna buy some content, Mr? Sometimes I feel like a frustrated character from a John Irving novel. No, not one of the bears from his early works (even though my children might think I'm a bit bear-like when I'm pissed off). No, not the tortured T.S. Garp. The correct answer is, of course, "the apple business.". When people get all prissy about being involved in digital media, especially social media, I just want to ask, "What business are you in? What business are you in? I was ...

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Ex-Lib at 50: July 2016

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Tuesday, July 26, 2016. It's the last hour of my 50th birthday. This blog's main purpose is to answer this question, over time and with feedback: Can someone like me successfully rebuild a lifestyle and career after age 50? I'll leave the reasons why this is a good choice, rather than a poor one, for subsequent posts. It's a scary birthday (I considered that old a mere 10 years ago) but that number, actually, was the i. One thing about surviving a really, really bad professional situation: You develop ne...