Sasse laughs.
His insight on time: "I think we all live on three time horizons. Daily, at the end of your workday and as the sun is setting, can you say that you did meaningful work that day and can you break bread with people you love? No. 2 is kind of a planning horizon. What decisions should you make over the next 30 days that'll pay off over the next 30 years? And then an eternal souls kind of time horizon. And all three of them matter. But one of the silliest things is to allow the planning horizon to crowd out the other two, and I think many times I did that."
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…resources are finite yes. I think what we think is important work ultimately has little meaning and/or we suck at ranking what will outlast our time…
Sasse will be a blip in the congressional record, the NPR other guy will forever be anonymous…
Being 83, I’m on borrowed time.
Not knowing how much is left, I choose to use as little time as possible in sleep. I’m pretty active between 8 a.m. and 4 a.m.
Most would be shocked to learn the age at which the chance of another birthday sinks below 50 percent. Don’t stop learning/doing new things.
More importantly, don’t shy away from forming new friendships/relationships. If you make 100, most of the people you shared the journey with will be gone.
Per AI:
While many, about 85%, live less than 1 year, some individuals with exceptional responses to therapy can live for several years.
So Sasse might be around quite a while.
I've seen Ben Sasse talk in person twice and once on Book TV. I know his background well. He went to Fremont high school and was a wrestler. His dad was a high school coach and refereed high school basketball games.
He has a deep love for Fremont. On Book TV he talked about growing up in Fremont and how great it was. The interviewer was so impressed that he said he wanted to move to Fremont. Sasse's advice in his book was to put down roots and that meant, to him, buying a cemetery plot. He'll be using that real estate sooner than he would like.
He had a stellar academic career and worked for Bain or McKinsey or a similar firm. He then became President of the small and struggling Midland College. He put it on a firm financial and demographic footing and probably saved about 200 jobs for faculty and staff.
He's written two book and is a thinker of deep thoughts. His first political campaign was for US Senate and he won based on lots of traveling and campaign. Great personality. He defeated a guy from my high school who was a year or two behind me and a super rich banker.
He quit the Senate and took the top job at the University of FL. He got caught up in some type of scandal about spending money and he resigned that job. His wife was also sick. I don't want to know what the allegations were against him. My sense is that he was trying to shake things up and he needed to spend money to do that. The entrenched administrators and faculty didn't like it and so they stabbed him in the back.
He's one of those guys - like Johnny Carson, Tom Cotton or Marco Rubio - who just rises up out of nowhere and achieves greatness based up their will, character, personality, intellect, work ethic and manner. For me at least, I think Nebraska lends itself for that kind of person to reach the top.
We Nebraskans (if I can generalize) have a Stoic attitude when it comes to life. Also a sense of humor. I think that comes from our wide open spaces, our roots in agriculture and the unpredictable nature of our weather and its severity. Our environment shapes who we are. Today, there's a chance that a tornado might blow through Omaha. We are used to it.
I appreciate his effort. The podcast is: Not Dead Yet.
Sasse’s impending death has given him no insight. Why waste a second giving an interview?
NKP, keep it up. We are all day to day.
I got a haircut this morning. When I showed up, a few minutes early, there was an old guy in the chair and another guy about my age, sitting in a 'wait' chair. I didn't pay much attention, but the old guy in the chair was chatting with the barber and it seemed mostly unintelligible to me. She was responding with no difficulty to what he was saying though. Anyway, when he got up, I realized he was really old. Little shuffling steps. The other guy was his son, giving him an outing. The guy announced he had a birthday this week: 96 years old, still pulling his boots on. Good for him. I'm shooting for 100, who knows? I'd be the first in my family if I make it, as far as I know.
in truth, most people never get anywhere close to the age where they have a better than even chance of dying.
It's the low probabilities that do us in.
All your life you are surrounded by people who have done what you are doing - been babies, been kids in school; been teenagers; started independent life: got jobs, married, got kids or chose a different path. Always millions had done it before you or were doing it with you. But, get to be eighty-one and suddenly there's only a few with you. And the ones who did it before are gone. What can you hold up to light the vast, dark cave you find yourself in? Where are the stars? Which direction is moonrise? When I knew I had cancer and I might die quite suddenly from complications all that mattered was that I had struggled to get out the truth about eugenics. I didn't think it was right or wrong. It just was done. I did it. It hung above me like a star.
Lik dude is the first person to have a fast acting cancer and has thus been gifted some great insight.
He really should spend every remaining breath on and with thosec 3 young kids and the wife. The boy especially. Time is a wasting, and so is sasse.
Making fun of cancer patients and publicizing himself tells you a lot. Pity him, but don't pretend it's noble to encourage this. "Glad it's not us" is no reason to laugh along
Dead man walking they say in the clink.
He should find god or a purpose in life or something, not just be trying to impress girls like althouse in his final days. Not worth it.
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