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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Kawasaki, 2020.06.19

I splurged on some peanut butter last night. For some reason, Japanese peanut butter is made with palm oil. I guess it just tastes better with a dash of the tears of displaced orangutans. We've wiped out 75% of them over the past 100 years, so I suppose that's another species I'll outlive. We have so little clue what we're doing; e.g. we only realized that there was a third species of them just three years ago.

rand()m quote

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