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Top Rankin’…28all. Eya. *PW* A Note to the Reader: Always one of my favorite MMLs to write. We get to show some love to one of the best to ever do it, Bob Marley! Robert Nesta Marley woulda turned 79 tomorrow, nuff respect. His music continues to touch and inspire me; if I’m down, it lifts me up. And if I’m good, it makes me feel even better! ... Happy Black History Month! The Warm-Up: “No more internal power struggle | We come together to overcome the little trouble | Soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionary | Cause I don’t want my people to be contrary | [Chorus] And brother you’re right, you’re right | You’re right, you’re right, you’re, so right | We’ll have to fight (we gon’ fight), we gonna fight (we gon’ fight) | We’ll have to fight (we gon’ fight), fighting for our rights…” ~Bob Marley, Zimbabwe The Core: “Fools talk, cowards silent, wise man listens.” ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon “The problem today is people don’t cherish good people, they try to use them.” ~Bob Marley “You flow differently when the right people are watering you but your cup never runs dry when you find ways to water yourself first.” ~Billy Chapata “I am not responsible for the projections that you place upon me. You can hold onto them for as long as you want, but they’ll never be loud enough to drown out the truth.” ~Michell C Clark “The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too...because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.” ~Bob Marley “Unspent money buys something intangible but valuable: freedom, independence, autonomy, and control over your time. Every dollar of savings buys a claim check on the future.” ~Morgan Housel, A Few Thoughts on Spending Money “Bless my eyes this morning | Jah sun is on the rise once again | The way earthly thing’s are going | Anything can happen | You see men sailing on their ego trip | Blast off on their spaceship | Million miles from reality | No care for you, no care for me…” ~Bob Marley, So Much Trouble In The World “One of the class’s key lessons was that like war, investing can be characterized as an act of survival and that success is often contingent on an investor’s ability to simply persist and endure through cycles. As a result, making sure a portfolio is positioned to do so should always be a priority.” ~Ted Lamade, The Thin Line “It’s complicated. Certainly, Desmond worked with Bob at the welding shop on the docks, and he encouraged Bob to audition a second time for Leslie after not passing his first time out. Jimmy probably was the one who drew Bob to the Beverly’s scene. But truthfully, no one really discovered Bob Marley. He discovered himself.” ~Chris Blackwell, The Islander “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history…” ~Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln’s December, 1862 Annual Address to Congress Last Set: “If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy...Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” ~Bob Marley Food For Thought: “You cant get rich renting out your time. You can go to school and study how to make money, but there’s no actual skill called business. You get rewarded by figuring out what society wants, but doesn’t yet know how to get, and becoming the person who delivers that, at scale.” ~Naval Ravikant Food For Thought II: “Blockchains are different. They’re a non-consensus bet. While plenty of people recognize their potential—including me—much of the establishment disregards them. In fact, a prevailing view in the tech industry assumes that the only vectors of technological improvement that matter are the ones incumbents are already focused on: bigger databases, faster processors, larger neural networks, smaller devices. The view is myopic. It puts too much weight on technologies originating from established institutions while ignoring ones that come from elsewhere, from the long tail of outside developers.” ~Chris Dixon, Read Write Own, Building the Next Era of the Internet
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