If your idea is so good that it changes your dynamic enough to where you need them less or, God forbid, the market needs them less, then they’re going to resist your idea every chance they can. Again, that’s human nature. – Ignore Everybody- Hugh MacLeod

Good reminder for me again don’t waste your time & energy to convince others. Do it for your own sake.

You can’t live others’ life. But you can invite them to yours if they want to join.

You are stuck with your decision. Both outcomes make sense.

Then which way?

You don’t know. You can’t figure it out.

Stuck on something makes you comfortable.

State of mind is much more important than whatever results will come or not…

I purchased 1Q84 on October 5, 2021, and today I finished reading the entire book (March 2, 2022). I rarely read fiction and rarely finished cover to cover any type of book except Haruki Murakami’s short stories. This is my first novel by Haruki Murakami.

My rate: 4.7/5

I read 1Q84 mostly before and after sleep. It was my kind of movie or TV series except I was reading. I literally imagined every page like a movie scene. That’s why I believe relaxing your mind and inspiring yourself to read fiction is excellent. But, it’s hard to find good and easy to read fiction. So, if you are thinking of starting Marukumi, start with his short stories.

My next Murakami Novel is: Kafka on the Shore.

Harukumi Murakami Story to Movie Adaptations

I already saw “Drive my car” one of my favorite Marukumi short stories, in selected movie theaters and HBO Max now. (Japan’s Oscar-nominated) My other favorite short story is “Tony Takitani.” (I didn’t watch it yet). They made a movie in 2004 for that story too.

Maybe we will see 1Q84’s movie adaptation in near soon?

When things are going well, we ignore lots of bad things. This is because we don’t want “that guy” who finds something to be improved.

When you are that guy and not just talk also try to execute -They say things take time. Enjoy this moment.

When you say how about the future? – They say we’ll think about when the future comes

When you show them how to do it, -They say we are different; these best practices will not work for us.

What you need to do:

-Just get rid of those passengers who enjoy the ride with you. They have no intention to drive when things are going wrong, or you are tired.

Nainsukh is the first Indian painter I’ve heard. He lived in the late 18th Century. His work was influenced by Mughal Empire in India and local Indian custom/cast structure.

It is definitely a leisurely ride. Impressed by the details of the work he did. Definitely going to order a replica of this if I can find it. Short Story about the picture: Ruler of Village went on a countryside ride with his musicians, dancer, hookah boy and was ready for the falcon show. More about here

Thanks to the book I’m reading –The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple. Learned ton about Muslim-Turkic/Mongol Empire and 17th century British Business Life so far.

I was going through today morning Kamal Ravikant’s book, and this question struck to me

So I ask myself the question, If I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do? I love this question. There is no threat, no right or wrong answer, only an invitation to my truth in this present moment.

What drives us? -Fear of losing? -Fear of disliked? or -Self-Love?

The teacher’s job is to teach, not to complain.

It doesn’t matter your audience is ready or not. You have to show up your job every day to teach.

I heard San Francisco was a (maybe still) intellectual city when I was in high school. My other reason was to move to Bay Area other than Tech right after college.

Everyone heard the hippie movement, but I just recently discovered the “Beat movement.” Their leaders are Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, and many more. These two names were familiar to me. I saw a couple of alleys under Kerouac while living near the SOMA part of San Francisco. A couple of days ago, I went to our local library to check out the Poetry section. Unfortunately, my English poetry knowledge is very limited with my two all-time favorites, Leonard Cohen and Charles Bukowski.

While checking the books on the poetry section, I found Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac. As I told you, Kerouac’s name is familiar to me. So I sat down and read a couple of pages of Mexico City Blues which has 242 choruses. I was shocked and speechless. Why nobody didn’t tell me this book before? It is a mind-blowing masterpiece. Most beat and hippie movement members think Mexico City Blues is religion. It’s hard for me to describe it.

The best way for you to listen/watch. Choruses readers include Allen Ginsberg, Carl Solomon, Michael Scholnick, Barbara Barg, Charles Bernstein, Vincent Katz, and many more. (Already checking their works too. I fall down to Mexico City Blue rabbit hole) Everyone stood up and read their favorite parts and shared their connection. (recorded live Dec 1988)

I really admire Marc Lore as an entrepreneur. I had a chance to met and did some app growth brainstorm sessions with him/his team during the early days of Jet.com

His track record speaks itself sold Diapers.com to Amazon ($545M) then started Jet.com as Amazon Killer and sold it to Walmart ($3.3B- yes B stands for Billion easy to write hard to swallow:)

Now, he’s working on a couple of projects and I am super interested in those two of them.

Telosa: Marc is starting a community & foundation to start a world-class city to attract initially 50k residents (goal is 5m). This new is modeling much more a startup analogy to build together and share the benefits after the city got the traction. Technically they are going to buy very cheap land and build from scratch. Their goal is to create more equitable and sustainable future.

Wonder: Let’s say your favorite restaurant is in the NYC Downtown and you are living in the Palo Alto suburbs. There is no way to get them via food delivery apps. Even if they serve on those apps you get your food after 30 minutes cold & not appetizing. Imagine your favorite restaurants come to you via mobile restaurants. They built a platform and infrastructure to know which location has a demand for what kind of food/cuisine. Good for consumers. And great for restaurant owners/chefs who can save lots of money for investing land that might be not ROI+ near soon.

Already interested in both of them as a consumer and thought I or my friends can contribute some ways. Let’s see.

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Note: Yesterday, I thought why should I write more than one post on my blog daily if I feel to write. (I did already write 2 posts yesterday) My biggest hold is don’t want to send readers more than 1 email. So, I’ll keep sending you only 1 email. But, If you are curious and want to check out from time to time what I published and didn’t send you an email, you can find all of them at aykuts.blog