Re: [Israel.pm] Mission Statement for a New Company based on Voluntarism-taken-to-Extreme

Hi Roman!

DeCCing Perl-IL - please keep it this way.

On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Roman M. Parparov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If a potential recruiter gets to read this message, and follows the link
> to your livejournal entry,
> and reads the lines "I gave my boss at the workplace this list, which
> I'll hope he'll read as much
> as possible from.", I'd guess Shlomi Fish would be disqualified as both
> a candidate and a
> contractor.
>

Hi Roman!

If a contractor STFWes me, or even just visit my personal web-site (URL at the 
bottom of every message I write) he'll find much more things due to which to 
reject me:

1. http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/TheEnemy/ - offensive to many Arabs, 
left-wingers, anti-Libertarians, pro-Israelis, etc.

2. http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/israel-pales/ - offensive to 
right-winged Israelis, and practicall every "humanitarian" people.

3. http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/case-for-file-swapping/ - offensive to 
all "IP-Nazis" and ultra-right-winged people.

4. http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/the-eternal-jew/ - incredibly 
blasphemous - practically every Theist will be offended.

And there are more. I'm not optimising to make myself look good to potential 
employers or commisioners. Instead, I'm trying to be the best possible man I 
can be. And that means being the best possible philosopher[1]. And that means 
speaking your mind. If I claim that Kant was a brilliant applied logician and 
history's greatest practical joker, many philosophy professors will think I'm 
talking non-sense. But I can prove that most of what he said was wrong, and 
given his false reasoning show the problems with it. (And no, I haven't read 
Kant yet - I was told it's incredibly inaccessible).

I believe in speaking my mind regardless of what the majority may think. At 
ancient times people believed the Sun revolved around the Earth. If we still 
believed that today, then we wouldn't have landed on the moon. Similarly, 
many or even most people believe that illegal narcotics should be illegal. 
This is also wrong, and I can prove it. 

Like I said, many people will hate me for what I said. But the most 
enlightened people (regardless of their many opinions) will find value in me 
speaking my mind so fearlessly[2]. I actually got some jobs because of my 
site, and there are some things I care about more than having a job. 
Hopefully, I will eventually become independent by becoming an 
essayist/blogger and a FOSS developer and consultant. This will enable me to 
get money for doing the things I'd like to do in my free time.[3]

What I meant by referring my boss to that, was that after I was fired I told 
him I believe he has yet a lot to learn as far as software management is 
concerned. **After** I was fired. So I was giving him a good advice.

It is possible many workplaces believe they are run in the best way possible, 
and that employees should just shut up, be micro-managed and do as they told 
and nothing more. However, there's no way I'd like working there, even if 
they paid me a lot of money. And I believe clueful people who are looking for 
consultants will be impressed that I'm familiar with "Joel on Software", Paul 
Graham, ESR, etc. and may actually prefer me over someone else. 

These are the companies I will most probably like to work for. They are much 
fewer than dysfunctional companies, but that's where hackers like to work. 
And for the record, I believe the company that fired me was as a general rule 
such a place.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

[1] - or essayist. Or now some bloggers are like that.

[2] - Although I admit that I find the thought of being witch-hunted for what 
I said not frightening, but rather exciting. People who feel fear and then do 
what they do anyway, are much more courageous than me, who is just a crazy 
romanticist.

[3] - And no, I don't think it will mean I'll be a leach on society. Some 
philosophers have produced more than they consumed, and obviously that's the 
case for the FOSS developers of many important projects.

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