Dave Evans
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But this death thing, once you get it, but it's going around.
It's becoming extremely popular.
You know, it was popular earlier and now it's popular later, but still very popular.
Almost everybody's into it.
And once you really get your hands around your finitude, and burying a couple of people will help you do that, it gets you more intimate with it.
So it's very freeing.
What have I got?
You know, 12 years, 15 years?
And it's very clear to me that my productivity –
is going to plummet after my death.
I mean, it's just going to fall.
It's just going to drop off like a stone.
And so this trajectory on the way to the grave, I mean, like, you know, how hard am I, you know, is the area under the curve of the last six months of my life really going to net matter?
Which doesn't mean mailing it in is okay.
What it means is, look, you're a person.
You have a life.
What's it for?
Now, get something done.
You know, I'm an old Boy Scout.
Let's leave the campground better than we found it.