Let There Be Light

Is there any good reason that the porch light doesn't have a switch on the outside of the door?

"Real life doesn't fit into tiny boxes that are drawn for it." -M. Night Shyamalan, Unbreakable

I struggle with this concept.

For instance, this morning I was very angry at a driver that was following me very closely, and who honked when I chose not to turn right at a red light. I wanted to get out of my car and walk over to his and tell him all the ways he was clearly wrong.

He was not considering the circumstances that led me to my actions. We all tend to see that in others. I was not considering his. We all tend to overlook that in ourselves.

So many things frustrate me that don't go the way they should. The way I think they should. I'm looking for life to fit into the tiny boxes I have drawn in my mind: those I was taught to draw, and those I decided needed to be drawn.

Normalcy

My boss said something beautiful to me yesterday, "Don't be normal. You wouldn't like being normal. We wouldn't like you if you were normal."

RE: Recording Industry Business Practice

This article came up randomly in the random article ticker on my gmail inbox. Following is an excerpt.

Prince's latest gambit also succeeded by acknowledging that copies, not songs, are just about worthless in the digital age. The longer an album is on sale, the more likely it is that people can find somewhere to make a copy from a friend's CD or a stranger's shared-files folder. When copies approach worthlessness, only the original has value, and that's what Prince sold to the Mail on Sunday: the right to be Patient Zero in the copying game.

I've never heard it said or been able to say it myself any better than this. Most companies that deal in intellectual property currently focus on licensing the copies of the IP, not the IP itself.