The Einstein Principle: Accomplish More By Doing Less

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In The Writer's Almanac I read that today (March 14) is the birthday of Albert Einstein, physicist and Nobel Prize winner who is remembered as having been a mathematical genius.

Albert Einstein March 14, 1879 -- April 18, 1955

According to the aforementioned article in The Writer's Almanac:

After the conclusion of his tour of the United States, in an interview with a Dutch newspaper, Albert Einstein said: "The vast enthusiasm for me in America appears to be typically American though and as far as I can judge I rather understand it: the people are so uncommonly bored, yes honestly much more so than is the case with us. And there is so little for them there anyhow. [...] So folks are happy when they are given something to play with and which they can revere, and that they then do with exceptional intensity.

Most of all it is the women, by the way, who dominate all of American life. The men are interested in nothing at all; they work, work as I haven't seen anyone anywhere else. For the rest, they are toy dogs for their wives, who spend the money in the most excessive fashion and who shroud themselves in a veil of extravagance. They will do anything that's in vogue and in fashion, and, as it happens, have thrown themselves among the throngs of the 'Einstein-craze,'

Does it make an outlandish impression upon me, the crowd's excitement here and there about my beliefs and theories, about which it doesn't understand anything? I find it amusing and also interesting to watch them. I certainly believe it is the magic of non-comprehension that attracts them."

A bit of an eye-opener... eh?

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Today, instead of spending time entering inanities into this blog as I usually do, I intend to buckle down and work on my ongoing project of self-publishing... after all, this would be considered as adhering to The Einstein Principle... "Accomplish more by doing less."

Right?

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Achievements worth achieving require hard work. There is no shortcut here.
--Albert Einstein

Do Common People Despise Government?

Today is Presidents Day in the United States. What is the significance of that? It's a Federal Holiday. Which means what? you might ask. Well, the banks are closed, government offices are closed (including postal mail delivery) and in most areas garbage collection is delayed one day -- stuff like that.

What benefit does this Presidents Day holiday offer to the general public? Any at all?

That's a pretty good question.

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The Manifesto of the Communist Party.pdf is a document I have never read during the 71 years of my life (until now) and I am truly amazed at some of the new thoughts that enter my mind as I am reading it. I'll have more about this at a later date.

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I am still researching methods of self-publishing. The Amazon.com method seems a bit complicated to me, unless of course you turn the raw data completely over to them and pay them thousands of dollars to do it for you. There is another way to publish a book and I am looking into it now; it's called Feedbooks and may be what I've been searching for... or not.

Oops...!

Some time has passed since I wrote the above, and now I have read more about self-publishing with Feedbooks...

I don't think so.

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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
-Thomas Jefferson

Being A Published Author

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Tucson Weather Today

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Conventional publishing or self-publishing:

Why?

Why not?

If and when I ever finish this dad-blamed novel, I will most probably be too old and senile (and cantankerously unpleasant) to go through all the myriad machinations and foolish fol-de-rol of submitting it first to a series of author's agents, or failing that, mailing it off to the corporate owned publishing houses, all in the vain hope that someone (some editor) will read it and like it sufficiently to convince the bosses to have it printed and marketed to the general public. Which, after acceptance of the manuscript, will take a matter of years before its appearance in retail bookstores. Where it will probably sit gathering dust.

But I am not too old to take advantage of the self-publishing industry, such as the Print On Demand process. It will cost me an initial outlay of cash, but the end result will probably be the same, but coming into fruition within a single year instead of many. And I will have a printed book that I can hold in my hand and pass out to family members, friends, an others of those who might care about such things.

Something to think about.

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I have been reading some of the words of the late...

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Here is an excerpt from something he wrote for National Review, circa 1955 --

A: It is the job of centralized government (in peacetime) to protect its citizens’ lives, liberty and property. All other activities of government tend to diminish freedom and hamper progress. The growth of government(the dominant social feature of this century) must be fought relentlessly. In this great social conflict of the era, we are, without reservations, on the libertarian side.

D: The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than “newness”) and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).
--William F. Buckley, Jr.
From: National Review Mission Statement

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Word Of The Day:

ontology The philosophical study of existence and the nature of being.

That says it all... right?

No, it does not... not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin... If you'd like to delve into ontology to a greater degree, you might start with what Wikipedia has to say about it. But I wouldn't advise it, unless you are retired and have a wealth of free time on your hands. Wiki will undoubtedly confuse the reader and invite further research into philosophical questions that will only serve to further confuse and eventually drive men (and women) mad.

One might as well ask:

What is the meaning of life.

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"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
--Poor Richard's Almanac