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the flat spot of progress

White Collar is

Posted on Posted in bead game, big bits, overnight notes, twits, Valley Hi


Is the new white power . It makes nothing but money Friction free economy produces nothing but more power to the white collar. Gone is the wet collar worker.

and politics produces the ivory collar scholar . no new knowledge just an addition to division.

between The pitch and the bitch
The pitch not a pit .
getting funded or fondled .

it's tech only because there's data a data store and marketing analysis . so the whole world web is just the back office of the marketing department in an ad agency.

you are your profile . A shadow self.
The difference between the amateur board and the professional board is the form of the conversation the discourse in the amateur case they lose nothing not even credibility since all the amateurs seem to be liars and exaggerating they can lose nothing other than amateur status they won't even be bounced from the board on the professional side they are exchanging information to verify and assure one another

The professional discourse has weight, because it's important to their career

The amateurs don't have a career and never did. The amateur site has a made up career; these are reenactors cosplay.

professionals are engaged in reality, amateurs in fantasy

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book bit. not mine. not on topic, although it has keyword overlap — https://mackbooks.co.uk/products/against-ageism-a-queer-manifesto-simone-van-saarloos?mc_cid=c374f63bed&mc_eid=43c00ae377

Equipment Poor

Posted on Posted in Getting Stuff, overnight notes, the Lab, Valley Hi

Do we need equipment/ does machine make the print? Is it the wand or the wizard {the setup)

How much equipment, supplies do you have that you don’t use, haven’t used in, what, a year, five, more? When you die, how many dumpsters will be filled. Did you buy it to brag or build.

I heard the phrase, “equipment poor” from a salesman suggesting that I wait before buying the new enlarger I wanted. His advice, which I took, was based upon his knowing that a new professional studio had bought too much equipment, more than their income warranted. They would fold; with that closure would come a darkroom, studio, as well as office.

The photographer didn’t have money, he had equipment. In silicon speak, he didn’t have runway… other years: his burn was too high. Tech Money loves to talk macho, military. They wear the fantasy. Role playing is the hallmark of the empty page.

Most startups across all fields fail for similar reasons. Hope isn’t knowledge. Skill isn’t profitable. Neither Hope nor Skill are unique factors. They are basics, like eyebrows.

My labs grew by bits. They grew with used equipment and new clients. Rarely did I sell equipment, although I did sell clients.

The equipment bought new would be lenses. During the 90s collapse, labs would give equipment away rather than paying salvage to dismantle and haul it.