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The audience comes last. The audience doesn't know what they want. The audience only knows what's come before. - Rick Rubin

I remember talking to an owner of a series of car dealerships in Spain in 2011-2012. The business had seen some massive boom years prior to the Great Recession, but following that, sales had collapsed. So now he had hundreds of employees on the payroll milling around doing very little at all. He could see the demise of the business ahead, but he

"The genetics lab at the University of Utah, a department that studies the role of genes in addiction, says that someone’s genetic makeup will never doom them to becoming an addict.28 Polk confirms that, despite any genetic connections, someone cannot become an alcoholic without repeatedly drinking alcohol."

From "This Naked Mind by Annie Grace

There is no possession more valuable than a sober sunrise, and any drunk who demands more out of life than that will probably not have it.