hehe. this is so lessig. you make me laugh when you do this how-depressed-i-am entry (i know its not funny, but it is funny anyway).

anyways, for free-culture’s sake, you need some slack. go let him play with dog and spider and law professor, please. we can take care of ourselves…or i hope, or we need to try it, at least.

Thanks again.

I very much empathise with your travel exhaustion having spent almost a decade globally evangelizing the commercialization of the Internet as a Wall Street Internet analyst.

The travel was most defintiely in the red zone, burn-out territory, with the need to be on the road for over 60% of the time, year after year.

In retrospect I’d inadvertently, and almost involuntarily postponed having a personal life in terms of getting married and starting a family for those years.

Most of my close friends and family told me what a mistake I was making. Of course I didn’t listen to them, since it was too easy to continue an un-ending series of commitments wrapped around a cause and a firm I truly believe in.

I’m very glad you’re making this re-commitment to family and self. It was only in hindsight that I realize how much of a difference it makes in rejuvenating one’s creative juices and energies…Duh…on me.

By the way, on the issue of self-imposing a rule of trying to do a different presentation to contextually fit each audience in different parts of the world…

I did the exact same thing…again, the number of times it seemed to be noticed and appreciated were depressingly few…it made me feel good initially that I was making the effort…

after a while, I realized it was much more effective to try and leave more time for formal and informal Q&A…that generally was appreciated much more in the end.

thanks again for all your hard work towards a critical cause, and a great post…

Best of luck.

michael parekh

Your ideas and passion have helped form a new context for debate and discussion on copyright and creative works.

You have touched untold thousands of lives in such a short period of time. You have done well. I am personally indebted to you.

-Stephen Wetzel
Free Software Magazine

it was very generous of you to share with your audience in this way.

it “remixed”, for me, a lyric i used to listen to as a college freshman by canada’s “power trio”:

It’s cold comfort
To the ones without it
To know how they struggled
How they suffered about it
If their lives were exotic and strange
They would likely have gladly exchanged them
For something a little more plain
Maybe something a little more sane

We each pay a fabulous price
For our visions of paradise
But a spirit with a vision is a dream
With a mission

Reminiscent of a favorite document by another influential member of the Stanford faculty.

🙂