Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself

[Klaus]

Availability of porn roughly correlates with measures of freedom and wealth.

I for one would not want to live in a society that bans pornography. The only ones that do this successfully are the Taliban.

[Mik]

Yeah. They only have goats and little boys.

[Jolly]

You've been to Ax's dungeon basement?

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

Yeah. They only have goats

A nanny state?

[Klaus]

@Jolly said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

You've been to Ax's dungeon basement?

Funny you should ask, but I have actually met Ax and his family multiple times. What about you?

[Doctor Phibes]

@Klaus said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

@Jolly said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

You've been to Ax's dungeon basement?

Funny you should ask, but I have actually met Ax and his family multiple times.

Yeah, me too. Ax is alright.

(That'll be $5, Ax)

[Mik]

I've met him too, but he never invited me over.... hmmm...what is he hiding?

[Jolly]

A dungeon?

[Jolly]

@Klaus said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

@Jolly said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

You've been to Ax's dungeon basement?

Funny you should ask, but I have actually met Ax and his family multiple times. What about you?

I haven't. Based on what interactions I've had with him, I don't have an overwhelming desire to rub elbows with him.

Assuming he has a wife (female) and children, I wish them well.

[Klaus]

You should occasionally meet with real people, Jolly. It puts things in perspective.

[Jolly]

@Klaus said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

You should occasionally meet with real people, Jolly. It puts things in perspective.

I suspect I meet and interact with more people than you do.

I sat here and counted up just yesterday. I had conversations with 28 different folks.

Yeah, it was a slow day...Do you have that many individual conversations in a day? In a week?

[Doctor Phibes]

I don't meet many actual people. Just customers. And engineers, of course. And management.

I think that might be why I come here. It makes real life seem better, somehow.

[Horace]

Leaving the house is rarely the best decision.

[Klaus]

@Jolly said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

@Klaus said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

You should occasionally meet with real people, Jolly. It puts things in perspective.

I suspect I meet and interact with more people than you do.

I sat here and counted up just yesterday. I had conversations with 28 different folks.

Yeah, it was a slow day...Do you have that many individual conversations in a day? In a week?

Not sure whether that counts, but I've given a lecture in front of 400 people today, including a lengthy Q&A.

But my point was that you should meet a few TNCR folks face to face every once in a while and not build ones image of a person merely from your interaction on the forum.

[Mik]

Everyone is on their best behavior in person. Not so much here.

[Horace]

The best part about meeting someone is that you can then gossip about them with great authority.

[Renauda]

@Horace said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

The best part about meeting someone is that you can then gossip about them with great authority.

….and even greater impunity.

[Jolly]

@Klaus said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

@Jolly said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

@Klaus said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

You should occasionally meet with real people, Jolly. It puts things in perspective.

I suspect I meet and interact with more people than you do.

I sat here and counted up just yesterday. I had conversations with 28 different folks.

Yeah, it was a slow day...Do you have that many individual conversations in a day? In a week?

Not sure whether that counts, but I've given a lecture in front of 400 people today, including a lengthy Q&A.

But my point was that you should meet a few TNCR folks face to face every once in a while and not build ones image of a person merely from your interaction on the forum.

Whoopee, I've been in front of a couple of thousand a few times and spoken to several hundred on multiple occasions.

But that's not conversations. How many one-on-one conversations do you have on a daily average?

[Jolly]

And my point is, there are multiple people here, who I'm sure could be a pleasant dinner companion.

I certainly could be wrong, but I suspect Ac could wear mighty thin, mighty fast.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in Selling Digital Pieces of Yourself:

Everyone is on their best behavior in person. Not so much here.

Actually, I'm pretty much me, 'ere I go.

You be nice. I be nice. You have manners, I have manners. You fuck with me, and you will have a bad day.

Simple. And it works for me.