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Chris Fox's avatar

Let me save you a lot of figuring out.

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation" — Nietzsche

Nearly everyone is frustrated and miserable, the lives we lead lack something. I don't want to get too verbose on this but some years ago I read about life in rural America in the mid 19th century, including a lot of diary entries. One thing I came away with was that people would just sit on a porch and sometimes not speak for hours. That kind of patience and peace is completely foreign to modern experience; three seconds of dead air and "well, gotta go, got things to do ..."

Horseshit. They have nothing to do, They just want to get back to their phone and their social networks.

I would love to discuss this in more detail sometime but I try to keep my posts brief.

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Chris Fox's avatar

I've posted that link on dozens of Medium articles about restoring the interruption-free workplace I knew at Microsoft in 1990-1.

That wisdom has been completely lost.

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Chris Fox's avatar

Say, Dave. I invited you a few weeks ago to write me, I repeat the invitation. cheopys@gmail.com.

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

I have written a number of times and never received a reply. Some of it rather personal which has just become alarming. Is email from dmurray110@cox.net in your spam/junk folder?

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Chris Fox's avatar

Nothing, but did you just receive my email?

Very strange that I got nothing.

This is where I got the name from. One of my favorite pieces of music of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPcpNoAhlCM

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

I received it. I just replied from my most used cox.net account and my little used Gmail account.

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