I truly believe Sarah doesn't have a clue.

hey there,

I was searching for advice about finding investors, and your site popped up - Nice job, by the way!

We recently made a huge guide to finding investors as a small business, and I thought you might like to see it.

If you like it, hopefully you'll link to it from your site as a resource - It could be valuable to your readers at hodsden.org :)

Can I send you the article to check it out?

Thanks so much,
Sarah

Jonathan was watching some interview this morning. The interviewer asked the interviewee, "If you could have lunch with any celebrity, living or dead, who would it be?" An interesting question, one that has easy answers for some, but the motivations for the who are often more revealing than the who.

I would like to have lunch with Hedy Lamarr. The woman chose herself time and time again, with first her escape from Austria, and later with doing things that needed to be done, even if not "acceptable" by society. With no formal training, and a tinkering hobby, she still invented important creations.

At the beginning of World War II, Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers.[2] Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are arguably incorporated into Bluetooth technology, and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi.
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In 1962 (at the time of the Cuban missile crisis), an updated version of their design at last appeared on Navy ships.[29] Lamarr and Antheil's work with spread spectrum technology contributed to the development of Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.

An annoying part:

Their invention was granted a patent on August 11, 1942 (filed using her married name Hedy Kiesler Markey). However, it was technologically difficult to implement, and at that time the U.S. Navy was not receptive to considering inventions coming from outside the military.

Of course not, though it shows that abandoning good ideas because you didn't invent them is a really crappy idea.

The latter part of her life wasn't so great, but that makes the story interesting, to be honest.

So, yeah, Hedy Lamarr, that's who I'd like to have lunch with.

So, I'm writing a book review for a book I read last summer (yes, yes, behind on my book reviews), and I came across a note I had made in the book that read, "Von Clausewitz." Not recalling who this person is, I searched for him and recalled he's a Prussian general and military theorist from the early 1800s. Oh boy, I thought, this'll be good. He wrote On War, which, along with The Art of War and The Book of Five Rings, is considered one of the classic military strategy books around. Not having read the book, I can't confirm this, I'm taking that statement off the Intarwebs, but I am interested enough in the book (working towards my 13 books non-fiction for the year), to look for it on Amazon.

And found a half dozen "this book sucks, it is incomplete!" versions of the book.

Okay, then, save myself that ninety-nine cents, and went to my library to see if the library had it. I searched for "On War" and a list of books came up.

A list I find interesting.

After the book, "War", there's Caliban's War, yep, science fiction, read it.

Next one was American War, yep, dystopian future, read it.

And then War and Peace. That one is a slog to read.

The Art of War, yep, still reading that one.

A few books later, The Forever War shows up. Yep, science fiction, read it.

Not done yet!

There's The Daylight War, also science fiction, also read.

The War of the Worlds. Yep.

And another few that, wow, I hadn't read. I didn't see Old Man's War, which surprised me.

What also surprised me is the number of books I've read with "War" in the title. The count is far from zero.

"Want to see something neat?"

"Sure."

"Look! I edited this video! I added this, and this, and this. And, okay, you are probably rolling your eyes, 'Whatever, I did that twenty years ago.'"

"I'm not rolling my eyes. I'm excited for you."

When I was a college student, I had this retrospectively annoying attitude that, if someone already did it, I didn't want to learn about it, it had already been done. What I was doing at that time was being an asshole. I am not that person today.

Today, I am EXCITED when someone, anyone, kid or adult, shows me this new thing they learned how to do. I am bouncing with joy at their victories, even when that victory is very, very small. I am going to clap and cheer for that accomplishment, because it is new and you learned it, you did it.

Somehow, as a youth, I had lost my childlike sense of wonder. It had been beaten out of me by the anger and bitterness and frustration of an imperfect life.

And yet, again somehow, I found it again: that sense of wonder, that joy of creation, the delight of making something that didn't exist before, something that needed to exist, to be born. I am sad at those years I spent missing how amazing this world is and can be.

So, no, I am not thinking, "Whatever."

I am saying, "That's awesome. Show me more."

They think someone should do something, but never them. Not me. It’s a classic collective action problem: we know things are bad, but they only affect each of us a little bit. So who is going to take care of it for us? Plenty of people believe in the theory of so-called great men of history, but who believes I am that great man?
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