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Quite interesting, well-written and non-superficial. I feel a bit ashamed reading a book with at title like this. But well, there you are. This is about the possibility of becoming financially independant, and all the obstacles on your way, outer, but especially inner. These are described painstakeningy, and realistically. Written by someone who didn't get rich by writing how to get rich books, which is a plus.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it, and thought of other things if you did. -- James Baldwin, Nobody knows my name

Unexpectedly I find this excellent book which is exactly about what I am working on and with. It is called Common Information Models (CIM). A focus on semantic linking of different kinds of models, serving the integration or exchange of information in disparate systems to different information consumers, who expect consistent information, regardless which channel to the information they chose.

'Deciding to allow the vajra master to override your rationale is taking an irreversible step into another dimension...Vajra commitment means that you have renounced any possibility of a get-out clause.'

Vajra-romance (the lover as yidam): "...we have at least two words to which form the key to what is learnt and how it is learnt. These words are threat and challenge - and it is the role of lovers as practitioners to seek out the finest frisson of what is intended by these words. The pawo seeks out threat. The khandro seeks out challenge. (...) Threat and challenge relate to emptiness and form. (...)"

Reading about 'the dangerous friend'

Prachtig boek. Onbesuisde, ontwortelde, verontrustende, ambivalente hoofdpersonen. Zoals het hoort.