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Nor me, Sven. The Veblen stuff currently is just the latest, but there's always something new.

Btw. Did I ever e-mail you the "Monster"? Branson would love it, but I never got near him.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat Mar 17th, 2007 at 03:54:52 PM EST
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You did not email me with it. I don't really have contact with Richard any more. He married Joan, one of my best friends then - in fact I kind of introduced them - but I am surely just a distant memory now. It has been 30 years - even though we have been in brief contact several times since.

But I did open his mind to two things: one was how to remove a watch from somebodies wrist wihout them knowing (A very drunken evening at a Russian restaurant in Helsinki), and hot air ballooning, on a Sunday in Nummela about 1976.

For these, I ask you forgivenance...

But he taught me far more than I ever taught him, by miles.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Mar 17th, 2007 at 05:34:13 PM EST
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A long, long time ago, in a Galaxy far far away....

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat Mar 17th, 2007 at 05:46:47 PM EST
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Just! (in the Finnish meaning).

Don't try to tell me you don't have some heroes from way back in your first decade on earth that didn't affect your present life?

Chris - we are boys still - and hold on to it. We can never be as altruistic as we were then. All my values stem from my family environment; I just didn't get to realise it until recently. I may have done very different things from what my parents envisioned for me, but I did follow their core values eventually. I only took my time to understand what those core values really were - because I looked at them so superficially, then.

I don't think my parents had a plan. But I do think they did their best to use their lives to fulfill themselves, as well as making considerable sacrifices to ensure that their children could also experience that fulfillment. I don't have a plan with my daughters either. Like everyone else, this is a first tiime experience. One cannot have a plan in these circumstances. What one can have is an attitude.

An attitude, IMHO, is essential to acheiving fulfillment

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Mar 17th, 2007 at 06:08:04 PM EST
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