Machiavelli taught me that you never worry about the bubble you live in, you work in. If you are only worried about the six inches before your face, you have no concern about your hindsight and you definitely have no foresight for the pitfalls before you. If you’ve ever read The Prince you understand that the politics of the mind are far greater than the politics of the moment. Controlling yourself and your outcome is the only way to truly control your future. That’s the only way to really dispel the fog of war.

-OM

Owning your online identity.

It’s important for us trying to market ourselves. You’ll notice I use a logo.

It’s professionally done by myself in Microsoft paint and I made it in a whole two minutes 7 years ago. Notice the bomb… cause I’m the bomb. And it’s knocking over the M cause what good is a bomb if it can’t knock shit over? What good is an opinion if it can’t move you?

I own the tags HarsH ReaLiTy and Opinionated Man because I make the effort to. Owning a tag doesn’t require money, at least I don’t think so. You own it with presence and most importantly persistence. And using the damn thing.

When I was a gamer in college I learned the value of owning a screen name. I pretty much carried that same notion to blogging because it was a game to me, a game of numbers. If you want to make a difference in this world unfortunately you undoubtedly have to make yourself known in some way. There will be many opinionated people in this world, but no one will own this tag. If they do… tell me and I’ll shame them.

In memory of Richie who just died and Highlander – there can be only one.

-OM