One little thing managed to jump out at me today from the neverending white noise that is my twitter feed and it was this strange little dandy of a headline:ok after spending 10 minutes looking for it I can’t find it, where are my LD minions, but something about Ashton Kutcher and tech investing on tech crunch, and I went, wha? Heh? The 70s show prettyboy dude where’s my car guy on techcrunch looking like an amish farmer with professional curls talking about tech investing? why yes, as a matter of fact he is.
And I was more or less bemused, looking out upon the world from my top-floor suite in LD headquarters, thinking what a strange world this was indeed, until I got to this little gem:
And I really think that like technology probably has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness, of most things in the world.
Excuse me? My little radar always perks up and spins around whenever anyone starts talking the great philosophical questions, and here was a dandy. Technology accelerates happiness, does it? Hmm. Beg to differ. Respectfully disagree, I do, and was, but I hung in there and then came this:
For me, if I don’t make any money but what we deliver, people love and happiness and connectivity and friendship and health and whatever it is, their education whatever it is that we can deliver that ultimately leads to people’s happiness. I’m fine losing my money, if that’s the case.
Let’s review the Dude, Where’s My Happy list, shall we:
* Love
* connectivity
* friendship
* health
* education
And I can only say, thank you Mr. Kutcher. Perhaps you are a wise man indeed, despite that silly little hat you’re wearing. There you have it kids – love, friendship, health, etc.
Love, friendship, health, etc.
Where’s fame, fortune, chicks, cars, stuff, clothes, prestige, titles, etc etc? I mean come on this is 2011, we have so many tastes to indulge these days.
Alas it was not lost on me, this cute little Ashton’s strange little fixation on chasing — nay, not chasing, providing — happiness. It’s not like he’s the first guy to wonder about that. There’s the Zappos guy, can’t forget about that peach of a shoe salesman. 
And if you wanted to get all historic, let’s review our fine nation’s constitution, shall we — life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. First line or something wasn’t it? Quick, who wrote the constitution? Bzzzzzzzzz. Can’t think of it? Ha that’s Ok we’ve got Ashton Kutcher and Silicon Valley to carry the mantle for us now. Who needs old guys in wigs.
So your mission this week, Launch Davidians, is thusly – try to pry your chubby little fingers off your TV remote control and hot pockets long enough to do something, anything, to promote one of the thingies off the Dude, Where’s My Happy List:
Love, friendship, health, etc.
