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Speaking mymind1/6/2023 check out the book Keenan brought up somewhere on this post or the Failure post – “Mistakes were Made (but not by me)”I’ll write a review on it when I finish it, but the title is a bit misleading. This is a reply to JLM and ErikSchwartz too.Regarding the tendancy of political blogs to reinforce or even harden a view. SPEAKING MYMIND SKINSome time thereafter the Congressman is using pejorative descriptors about Republicans while during our lunch he was a paragon of decorum and courtesy.I have a pretty damn thick skin so I am not complaining about using the right fork for shellfish but it is a puzzle to me. We will often have lunch and spend a couple of hours talking about business or job creation and you could not tell our conversations apart from one with Newton Gingrich. And maybe, just maybe, he does not.Even more puzzling is the fact that on a one on one basis these politicians often revert to their original form.I have a local Congressman who is wildly liberal on social issues and with whom I rarely agree on social programs but he is quite conservative fiscally. They fear he no longer represents their view of things. Locals think their guy has become a “national” rather than retaining his local grounding. One of the most puzzling things about politics is the phenomenon whereby very independent thinking and politically entrepreneurial folks run for and succeed in being elected to office to represent a specific community and then go to Washington and lose that strong personal independence, that singular identity and that focused representation and just become part of a “national” party with their views more significantly impacted by what the “party” thinks rather than what their constituency thinks.This phenomenon is at the root of the town hall meeting food fights. We live in an open society where everyone has this right. SPEAKING MYMIND FULLIf you really think I am full of s**t, let me know in the comments, but please don't suggest that I don't have the right to speak my mind. And you know what? They've opened my mind to other viewpoints and I have to say that I am more open minded about their views than had they not taken the time to articulate them sensibly and articulately. They leave comments arguing that I'm wrong. But they've never suggested that I shouldn't speak my mind. People like Andy Swan, JLM, Dave in Hackensack, Steve Kane and many others. There are plenty of regular readers of this blog who don't agree with me on most of my political views. It could even hurt our business because those people are less likely to do business with me or our firm.īut I've made the decision to put myself out there, speak my mind publicly, and say what I think. But that is not going to stop me from speaking my mind about things other than venture capital and web startups. I am not an expert in everything I write about. I've said this before here on the AVC blog, but it's important to me and I want to say it again. With a modicum of success mistake themselves for an expert in health OL1831166W Page_number_confidence 96.82 Pages 442 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.7 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210201142358 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 422 Scandate 20210128204914 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780091744267 Tts_version 4.Think it's really unfortunate that the health care issue makes everyone Urn:lcp:speakingmymindse0000reag:lcpdf:c00c3331-f621-47ff-8a27-d1b8b43f59b3 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier speakingmymindse0000reag Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7wn1c84s Invoice 1652 Isbn 0091744261 Lccn 94219312 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9579 Ocr_module_version 0.0.11 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000214 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:16:19 Boxid IA40052903 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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