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selling things

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2020.05.06

We're selling our stuff in advance of the big move to Tokyo. So far, we've sold two IKEA cabinets, a pine cabinet from Seagull here in the Beaches (my 40th birthday present from Mari), and we're selling our big bookshelf from Crate as well as our old Samsung TV. We're doing this all this on kijiji, which brings out the bottom feeders in considerable numbers, but with two five-star ratings on my account from giving away the camera gear, hopefully we'll also attract legit buyers.

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One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.

—John Boyd, US Air Force