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Read The Text

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everyone wants to be relevant none more so than the amateur  who has never been relevant never noticed in their field never noticed in their craft … they fight over the small opinions, the scraps. Where does the fight in the scrapyard arrive?

The know it all’s that do little make the biggest mistakes.

Your first action reveals your past ability.

not even an imaginative mea culpa 

Chuck: “THEN all we’ll hear is about the horrors of “the man”, “greed” and all the rest of it so popular these days from people with no skin in the game.” “I’ve done my share of consulting in large (or even very large) businesses. You see this all the time. When something gets really big, people lose sight of whom they serve and what their larger mission is. The preservation of the status quo becomes more important and leadership hunkers down in “protect” mode. That was true at Kodak, but it is equally true of many large institutions including big business, big church, big government, big charity, big entertainment …”

[ wonder who he skins; (until another time)]

Spirit of Honesty. Behind the report is the person. SEC reporting. Kodak reports critically, but with dropping share price makes clarification. Seems that owner culture tied to stock comp means we explain beyond the rules. We engage in optimism sales talk.

FujiFilm doesn’t do that. They are prepared for the persistent ocular-secular perception of being “inscrutable” — they file and say to all the same thing. Without so much as a Chatham rule.

NBR link to stock Kodak vs. Fuji and publication of financial data to be used by investors. What they are buying, including elements of hazard the company knows. The open hand of the west, but only the east accepts in letter and deed .

When you bought your house, you didn’t move it. It isn’t a couch. Same with buying a business. The sign changes. Perhaps as easy as adding: “A Division of ..[your name here]” — No bull dozer. No bullshit. Perhaps this is something only those in the “ology” fields perceive. The demi-quantz miss most of the actual questions. Must be biology, or such — so much for degrees of meritocracy.

“… They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization, but I believe that they should be so supervised and so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.”

Kodak’s response to their skinned knee: https://www.kodak.com/en/company/blog-post/statement-regarding-misleading-media-reports/

your chances

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of being known are bounded by who you know.

do you and yours talk about how to mix, store, dilute developer? is your time spent discussing means and methods of craft? is this balanced with shows you’ve seen; books, music, food… is the food crafted or thawed.. how much of your life is spent trying to impress others with your knowledge is a measure of how little knowledge you have.

creative life means a style of life; one which encompasses those arround you. much of the sidelined, the hobby crowd, those people are stranded because they never new what to think about. they weren’t able to sustain their own inner drive, so they persued engineering, or accounting.

I used to tell students that if they didn’t find it easy to work endlessly, then their money would be better spent opening a hot-dog stand outside a bank instead of in art school. Less risk and probably the same level of satisfaction. Earn money to buy someone else’s art.