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@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ The company is in limbo now. I can't afford to pay authors, and yet some are und
That I have failed at running the company has killed my interest in running it any further. Jill's book needs editing and a cover. She's under contract, right? I need to do this and yet, and yet...
> And yet you can't because engaging even with the positive aspects of the company mean facing your failures all the way on the other side. It means recognizing the ways in which you've fallen short.
> And yet you can't because engaging even with the positive side of the company means facing your failures all the way on the other side. It means recognizing the ways in which you've fallen short.
Yes.
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> This is the true failure.
Yes. Not the anthologies failing, not the countless problems involved in running a business, but the complete inability to engage with concrete failures. The concrete failure of the anthologies has lead to the one true failure of being unable to ask for help, even when it is well and truly given, whether by Furplanet or by Scribbles or by JD. It is an abstract failure, and for that, all the more insidious. One cannot escape abstract failures. One cannot solve them through concrete steps.
Yes. Not the anthologies failing, not the countless problems involved in running a business, but the complete inability to engage with concrete failures. The concrete failure of the anthologies has roots in the one true failure of being unable to ask for help, even when it is well and truly given, whether by Furplanet or by Scribbles or by my partners. It is an abstract failure, and for that, all the more insidious. One cannot escape abstract failures. One cannot solve them through concrete steps.
Unemployment is a concrete problem. COBRA is a concrete problem. Burnout is a more abstract problem, sure, but one with concrete solutions.