— Bob-a-job-alog-a-roonie

I didn’t know what I was looking for

And it wasn’t there

It is a common psychological concept that the desire of love can drive behaviour.

I suggest that love is a plus minus thing.

When you get love on the positive side, you want more. It feeds upon itself negatively.

When you get love on the negative side, you want less. It is the wrong side of love.

(the negative side is not the opposite of love, it is the absence of love)

(sorry, drunk)

I’ve almost worked it out.

Adoption of babies is such a big deal that many prospective adopted parents miss out.

We want to give our love to those who are not our own flesh and blood. It is  a real thing.

But you could argue that such generosity could be clouded by feelings of ownership and “look at me”.

Why not take it to the next level. Where your world has no idea of what you are doing. Your giving is purely something felt by you and the recipient.

I have had a few odd occasions where my helping someone was not broadcast, and the story stayed in my head, and I walked taller because of it.

It is the difference between giving $5 to a homeless person, and giving $5 to a homeless person and not telling anyone you did that.

No. it isn’t so simple. I have a workaround. Build up all of your giving and one day tell someone. It could be 5 years of giving. Be driven by the future admission.

Adopting a baby is relatively easy. There are other forms of adoption one can take. Less rewarding forms in terms of accolades. But rewarding just as much.

Make a friend with someone who doesn’t have friends. Hold hands with someone who snarls at the world.

This is an idea for a new book form. Think of the old Rolodex, and get someone to redesign the general concept as a work of beauty – a new kind of coffee-table book. Minimalist and cleverly functional. Maybe handles of either side of the spindle and a button to turn the pages.

Because of the style, these books lean towards a minimalistic structure – no cover page, no table of contents, no page numbers.

My idea for a first iteration is called More is Less – Everything Has a Limit, with a theme of highlighting where “progress” isn’t necessarily good. For example:

Nuclear power / Chernobyl
Capitalism / the 1%
Plastic / polluted oceans, dead creatures

Every pair of open pages have a photo or art on the left and a short quotable sentence, and/or statistics on the right.  It should be punctuated with irony.

The price of the book is 4x cost to produce, and promoted as such. Contributors get a 50% share of the profits, and charities get the other 50%.

I’d livestream this but too drunk…

(note to self, make a website / directory of Diceman-related stuff…)

Visit Amazon, choose 6 different book genres with the dice, then 6 different sub-genres, then the top 6 ranked results, then buy. 100% dice driven 🙂

(by forcing you to come up with categories, the winning is already happening)

1. Business
2. Computers
3. History
4. Literature
5. Science
6. Science Fiction

And the dice says… 2

Shit…

1. Business Technology
2. Computer Science
3. Internet & Social Media
4. Security and Encryption
5. Software
6. Web Development and Design

And the dice says (yep I know one is called a die)… 6

Best Sellers are:

1. Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too
2. Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
3. Python Crash Course: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming
4. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
5. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
6. Password book: A Premium Journal And Logbook To Protect Usernames and Passwords: Modern Password Keeper, Vault, Notebook and Online Organizer with … Calligraphy and Hand Lettering Design)

And the winner is… 5

I never would have picked this book off the shelf. Never. But it might make sense, deep diving into why we choose what we do. Ordered!

($13.75 USD, up to a month for delivery, all good)

Ppl can livestream this, including the purchase, and then report back later.

One week later – I feel this is good for a once, but not terribly repeatable…

I’ve done the impossible before, so these are not madness:

• Sell my drone idea to Google
• Defeat Facebook
• Make my offline digital ID idea a reality
• Defeat AI
• Find love again
• Create a feasible digital currency
• Prove that I have found Noah’s Ark
• Guide my kids with all of my heart
• Stay healthy
• Gamify world peace

Men used to decorate buildings when they were built, now they are relatively featureless.

Men use to wear three-piece suits.

Men used to speak fancy.

Just like peacocks, magpies and most many animals try to impress with decoration.

(yes, some try to impress with strength, but that is a different topic…)

Men don’t decorate much these days.

I feel that women are decorating more now. I feel the tide is turning. I feel that roles are reversing or at the least balancing.