Latest / The Vincere Project / Episode 13. Direction of Travel
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- Vincent: Alright, the Vincere project continues. We're here in the middle of June. We have no more lights. And I just want to highlight my nose for anybody that sees it on YouTube. I took uncle's 7mm right off the snout when we were at the range. ⁓ it's not the first time I've broken my nose. I definitely played ice hockey as a kid, up through college. Been in a skirmish or two out in the world, it pops back in and out of place. It has like some cartilage loose and it cranks, but ⁓ gave this trigger squeeze. ⁓ probably like four or five pounds of pressure when I needed one one a half, whatever it was. beautiful weapon and my uncle ⁓ quality time. like I like spending time with ⁓ my family and closest friends and it's a little bit of what this podcast is about and ⁓ we'll have a short one, I don't know, it'll be brief, but the topic for the day is direction of travel and ⁓ on the flight down sit down, I have my little routine or ritual for travel and got everything I need and you know, look up and and on the screen, you know, there there's ⁓ little bit of map and you have options for entertainment, whatever, and ⁓ just kinda looking at the map and you show the topography and a l a little bit of a compass and and you're kinda you know, you're tracking along like what's happening. And for me the first question that came to mind and journal about this on the flight is like, what's more important in my lifetime is it the time ⁓ or is it the of travel? man, has replays is built into our principles and our value sets that drive H hour and all things Vincere project. And I think that me and Mary are about those things and the idea that time has no replays, it's principle number two. I I still dance with those things and I I find that those like those heady little topics to roll over in the mind, have conversations about and explore and examine, keep me safe and kind of give me parameters to play. But to direction travel. ⁓ You the compass documented as being invented ⁓ before any sort of clock or watch or measurement of time. Alright, and I don't know if that's inherently true from a philosophical perspective or an actual ⁓ practical application of of how time is measured. I I don't know, I'm not an expert in that, but I I can understand that. I think direction of travel matters a lot. And not so much if you make it there, get there, do what you want to do, but it's are you ⁓ becoming who you need to become on your journey in that direction of travel? And are you developing the requisite skill sets when you deal with the obstacles and barriers that may you may encounter when you're out there. And I think what's kinda cool to tie in a little bit of off the subject is ⁓ my buddy Bill and and ⁓ A student at some point, they gave me ⁓ some gifts. One was a a compass, traditional military lensetic compass and and you know, good memories, right? It's symbolic and and the other one was a nautical compass and and you know, they're they're just they sit on the bookshelf behind me and I think about that as direction of travel for for my purposes throughout my life, where I strayed or wandered from what I knew was right or virtuous or best. ⁓ It's 'cause I checking in ⁓ on the basics in terms of Reading the map, of assessing and evaluating the direction, what are some of the barriers, the obstacles, the terrain, the elevation, and you know, am I reading the ridge lines correctly, bodies of water, and then unforeseen things that are gonna come up on the route, right? And that that's man, that's metaphorical for life. But but I think there's something to that. So anyway, my my uncle, we're down I'm down in Florida and spending time and it's just beautiful, man. It's just beautiful, beautiful weekend and you know, we're just chatting all things and Somehow it comes up about his experience in Vietnam with the one seventy third and them chatting and talking. He's like talking about when he was on point a few times, how he saw like tiger prints, crazy sunset, sunrises, being laid in for an ambush in the Central Highlands and lizards are crawling over them. But they know like a company of NVAs is is fast, moving fast on the rat lines. and how the terrain was a ⁓ beautiful, like spectacular, stunning the backdrop of it. ⁓ You know, I think I have good memories like that of Afghanistan in some ways. Like there was some terrain in Kunar province that was like that that like could just get their stuff together and that would be just an amazing hiking destination or maybe even skis, skiing like up way up in the mountains. But they're long way away from that. And and the one thing my uncle and I were talking about is like direction travel for mankind, civilization, society, and people, and you know, him and I are just celebrating how the UFC is now fighting at in front of the White House and President Trump is using the military to guide and lead it, and he's doing all these demonstrations of You know, here here are these here's these folks marching in precision and the Marine Corps, here's some combative folks demonstrating and enrolling and and and getting after it and Yeah, I think it's just cool. And it's a good thing. It's it's away from some of the degeneracy and and deviant behavior that's been presented to us as normal behavior. and in my estimation it's quite the opposite. That is some social deviant stuff that's been introduced and ⁓ the left tries do that. But that's a a little bit of a tangent. My uncle and I were talking about the direction of travel in terms of land navigation and how you sort through and you make decisions based on where you think you're going and then what happens when you get there. River crossings, open areas, rice paddies, dirt roads, right? Poppy fields in Afghanistan, right? Like folks get sensitive when you mess with their poppy field, right? ⁓ don't even care if you're there, who and what goes there. They're just they're about that action if somebody threatens ⁓ crop 'cause it's about resources. Taliban, it doesn't matter to them. You know, they don't mess with our drugs. the Viet Cong and the NVA had elements that were consistent with the behaviors and presentation of Al Qaeda, ISIL, ISIS, the Taliban, especially those hardcore parts of the Taliban. And, you know, we just agreed that they there's there's some bad people in the world at times and somehow we veer from the appropriate direction of travel based on this ⁓ misinformation that happens. You know, 'cause people are talking about it when they're climbing the Brooklyn Bridge or protesting in your local town and And they're not actually ⁓ privy to what goes on in the ground and how you know he he always claims like hey we were we were the 173rd man, the herd, like we were the professional infantry, the professional infantryman, right? And he's very proud of that. And he's like, I never saw anything heinous or malevolent or cruel. I saw some vicious and barbaric things. I was part a part of all of that, right? Like ⁓ I was in an infantry platoon, I was a squad leader, right? He's like, that's part of it, you know, and I I would say On my end, as a service support being attached to all these elements, I never saw anything heinous, whether it was special operations folks or or the infantry or myself, like and the folks that did heinous things and criminal things, they went to jail. They went to jail back then too, but the media fails to tell that story. So what d was the direction of travel, man, and and I just want to share this in relationship to the army's birthday, is like, man, the American warfighter is still the gold standard. Technology, no technology, drones, no drones, pitchfork shovels. American warfighter is the gold standard in terms of excellence and behavior. And then that's just a bias I have. It's a bias I get to have, you know, and celebrate the army's birthday. Yeah, of travel, so cool. But a little bit of segue, right? Then we you know, I'm processing the SpaceX IPO and thinking about some of the nonsense that gets propagated to our children, our families that ⁓ nobody be a trillionaire. That's just stupid. That's stupid, that's idiotic, it it's it's short-sighted. It's inhumane to tell a child that. It's inhumane to be like, hey, you don't want to be a trillionaire. You don't want to be a billionaire. That sucks. ⁓ not a billionaire, but I I would think like there's some ad advantages that a billionaire or a trillionaire might experience. ⁓ I would like to think if they're doing it the right way with some level of decency, like a smidge of it, ⁓ the world rewards that particular person because they create so much massive value for other people. Think about it. Whoever works with Elon and bets on Elon sticks with him from the the cafeteria to the guys that do the lawn, that maintain the maintenance, that run the operations and the budget and the HR, everybody gets rich. Like what a good deal. What a good deal. Everybody gets rich. And I think that's a good, good world to live in, and that's what I want to espouse and and encourage my children to think about is that the more value you bring to other people, the more you're rewarded. And sometimes it's monetary and sometimes it's not. And I and I think that's that's assuming good intent. But if you you bring A valuable product to your community and to your town or nation or world and ⁓ you s you're diligent and stay the course, you can be rewarded for that stuff. And I think that's all hinges upon direction of travel, not time necessarily or speed in getting there. You wanna be urgent but not rush in your decision making and especially the execution of the thing. You gotta test it against the market. And I think Elon is the greatest end entrepreneur in our ⁓ recent history and needs evidence of that. Pretty amazing. ⁓ right. Cheers. Have a good day.