Leadership Derailment Notes, Lab-Meat Hype, Mandalorian Escape

December 4, 2020

I kept pushing through a heavy day of business-school leadership doctrine mixed with lab-grown meat excitement, and I closed it by staying in control and moving my story forward.

2:15 PM

Omg, this is the best news ever because i love the taste of meat and hate having to inadvertently, indirectly but via supply chain knowingly having to kill chickens, cows and pigs and seafoods. This is the first step in Star Trek era food being made in those future microwave machines. Star Trek food replicater, dispenser and maker by genius Gene Roddenberry

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_(Star_Trek)

2:15 PM (b)

https://www.facebook.com/100005335308340/posts/1635661579955003/?sfnsn=mo

https://www.sciencealert.com/singapore-will-be-the-first-country-to-have-lab-grown-meat-up-for-sale

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_(Star_Trek)

2:15 PM (c)

Woke up this morning -- found out all my Star Wars The Mandalorian have been ██████ downloaded for me to watch

https://youtu.be/Biyg_PVPIIo

8:30 PM

Take a good look, these█████████████████████████████

8:30 PM (b)

I must read this, I hope you can ship to Sri Lanka for me

8:30 PM (c)

Omg, I saw you post about the lab grown chicken meat used in Singapore for nuggets, I immediately thought of the Star Trek food replicator by Gene Roddenberry! You posted this 4 hours ago, I posted 6 hours ago! Great minds think alike!! ^__^

12:30 AM

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2020

11:45 a.m.

"Strange Dream"

I had an interesting dream. I was having tooth pain. My lower or upper right canine was aching, it was loose. I was in a hospital. The doctor was a celebrity doctor. It gets weird. I was in school. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ███████████████████████████████████████

My teeth were aching, so I told him. When we're walking out, we magically ended up in a hospital reception, where there were two ladies. They protested the doctor who originally looked like Kamal Gunarathna uncle and then later lost the moustache, or never had it, and was fatter. The doctor went and opens a cabinet in the reception. The ladies protest and say they've never had to deal with this from a doctor before. I replied they never had a celebrity doctor. They laughed.

The doctor pulls out something, a very big box. On the TV there was something about a war going on. The Muslim countries, they were angry. I saw clearly it was Iran, a guy was giving a speech in English with English subtitles at least, and he was blaming unknown countries for attacks in unknown countries.

I understood clearly again, that the doctor would pull out my tooth, I felt treacherous, I also was never told it was going to be pulled out. I had the feeling he could've fixed the ache and the doctor was evil, ██████████████████████████████████████████

*Dream Ends*

I woke up suddenly, my mum was banging on the door, she needed the Wi-Fi password, which I checked on the WhatsApp family chat and reminded her.

Last night I introduced Jonathan Hirshon to Bhante Saranapala, so he can learn more about Buddhism and I hope release himself from suffering. I love my friend Jonathan, he's the best hearted, most favourite person for me. I saw Sandalal uncle and my Ramani aunty and Anura Gunadasa uncle last night. I didn't go to say hi, I guess, they saw me, I was busy. I had to go on a Uber to pay my phone bill, but they didn't pick me up, and instead took off without me in the opposite direction.

There's a lack of management for Uber. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ His mother and father did the best they could for him. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

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12:15 p.m.

I get the feeling, I could represent Uber in Sri Lanka. I could do a better job managing it properly. Troy Billett knows one of their founders, I should get a introduction. I'll need to get Thilanga uncle who did Nano Cabs involved.

12:45 p.m.

I blocked Nalin R RN. He's Thilanga uncle's secretary. ███████████████████████████████ ████████████████████████ ██████████████████████ I have like 500 friends now. I'll block more people when I give up on them or no longer trust them. Kiran Chandiram and I guess Sooraj Radha haven't really done anything wrong. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

1:00 p.m.

Dunno. I'll try to connect or learn from Bala Kamallakharan. It's highly irregular for him to be angry with me over our history. If he's reluctant or got reservations, I'll just move on. No biggie.

5:00 p.m.

I took an Uber to pay my phone bill. The Cargills Food City nearby was closed, so, we went to Ward Place. I paid 5,000 LKR for my Mobitel number and 1,000 LKR for my Dialog number. The Uber cost 600 LKR surprisingly, the trip to Ward Place was 250 LKR, including an unnecessary detour, but it jumped to 600 LKR just to head back home.

I spoke to Jonathan Hirshon's friend Bala Kamallakharan, he shared many very valuable insights and tips for me because he's a Venture Capitalist and head of Start Up Iceland, he mentors startup founders, I asked him interesting questions such as about bootstraping, which he clarified really well, he hasn't met Chamath Palihapitiya, but he's heard of him, he told me he's trying to get Iceland ICC membership for cricket.

I sprayed him with the full spectrum of contacts at Sri Lanka Cricket, he didn't have any plans on using those contacts to get anything done, I'm sure he must've found a way to get Iceland into ICC. I don't play cricket, I don't know about it enough. Best I can do is intro to important people like my uncle and lobby for him or anyone.

I learned about exciting startups he's investing in, he hasn't lost money on a startup, he has invested in diabetes treatment and eye retina neuropathy prevention, he's invested in nanotechnology nanomaterials for energy conservation through battery technologies, etc. I'm not really into that,

I guess, Troy Billet is into the startup thing, I'm mostly into defence and cyber security, specifically, adversarial attack behavior and hardening attack surfaces. He was generous with his time. There's 60m Tamils and 20m Sinhalese.

I think his main point for me was to develop a very good vision and lead people to that promised land. He used Buddha as an example to help me see that. Jonathan's friends are really cool. I can email him if needed to schedule a meeting in the future. But I don't think there's any need because we're revenue depending for growth and investment and we're only piggy backing on uncle Thilanga Sumathipala's reputation and partnering with vendors to build technology.

He warned me that as a reseller, we'll be at the mercy of the principal and shared some clever tips on how to overcome that danger, including to build our own software as a complementary offer and build on partnership. He told me his 17 year old daughter is into climate change, racial prejudice inequalities, etc, he has told her to focus on herself first like the Michael Jackson song Man in the Mirror my cousin Chadu Sumathipala loves.

He told me his family in India are preparing for the cyclone that's about to hit soon. He sounds just like Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella.

I need to eat lunch, I missed breakfast. I bought 4 Maggi noodles.

4:15 AM

<3 The Queen's Gambit Chess App Easter egg

5:00 AM

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2020

12:00 a.m.

I watched The Boys Season 2 finale. It was a 7 out of 10 okay. I'm watching The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), it's okay, I don't like horror movies or tv shows, it spoils my mood, it makes me feel bad, I do things I don't like. I watch scary stuff to get brave and gain courage.

My mum made good dinner, the roast chicken and Singapore/ Jaffna Chilli Crab Cutlets were good. I can make meals for Bala Kamallakharan and Jonathan Hirshon when they come to stay at our home as guests, though I don't know if Bala will come.

The guestroom is big, I'm expecting Jonathan and Amanda to stay there. I expect all my friends to stay over at my home when in Sri Lanka. It's better than a hotel, our home is like a Raffles Hotel Singapore. I don't know if Bala Kamallakharan and his family and Jonathan can stay at the same time in the same room.

I can give Bala Kamallakharan my room, I can sleep in the living room. Or maybe, we can host them as guests separately or use Jagath mami's place.

This Haunting of Bly Manor is weird, I don't like scary stuff, it messes with me, I'm a very sensitive person, i don't like this kind of stuff. I'm just like my cousin Chadu who also doesn't like scary stuff. My dad used to tell me scary stories. I can only manage The Walking Dead. I remember playing Metal Gear Solid Snake 5 The Phantom Pain and when the skulls, the parasite unit came, I got freaked out by the cutscene, I wanted to stop playing. Having to fight the Sahelanthropus by myself, I nearly gave up. I don't like it.

My flatmates in England complained I'd scream when playing Call of Duty Zombies because I'm a chicken s*** and I don't like surprises and dying. My Tamil friend Jonathan Page is really good at Zombies, he revived me like a 100 times, he's good, I play with smart players, so I do well. My other Tamil friend Jonathan Ram or Chrish Jonathan gave me good Pokemon on Nintendo Gameboy. They're all, innocent, good wonderful people.

I'm sad my mum locked the door in the living room, so I can't access the sink to use the kettle I bought in England to make myself hot Maggi noodles soup for myself. It's a very comforting, cozy and warming meal for me. I love it. I used to love the tomato soup in England from Campbell's. It was the best, I just dipped bread in it.

12:30 a.m.

I'm watching episode 2 of Haunting of Bly Manor. I'm getting hungry. I wonder if I can use the water filter hot water to make myself a nice hot warm bowl of ramen to enjoy. I'm scared to go downstairs because I'm scared of the dark ever since my dad died, there must be ghosts in my house.

Last night when I made myself Maggi Daiya instant noodles ramen, I added a tea cup of coconut milk. It wasn't a total disaster, it tasted okay, the broth was a bit richer, but I didn't like it and so, I'll never ever do it again.

1:30 a.m.

I made myself a bowl of instant cream of chicken soup. I added hot sauce and olive oil and loads of pepper. I made a mistake adding olive oil in the beginning, I should add in the end.

I feel that Olive oil gets agitated in the blender when making mayonnaise, the bitter compounds, the polyphenols get out of the fatty acids. So, I'll add olive oil later, after soup is cooked.

1:45 a.m.

Bhante Saranapala told me last night, it's all about identifying suffering, what causes suffering, how to end suffering and ending suffering, the four noble truths in Buddhism.

I'm so thankful Jacques and Denzil Perera can talk to Thilanga Sumathipala uncle on my behalf because it's hard for him to help his own nephew's ventures.

3:30 a.m.

I'm getting sleepy now. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

4:30 a.m.

Watching Queen's Gambit. I didn't like Haunting of Bly Manor, I can't watch scary stuff, it creeps me out. I'm sad to see kids given tranquilizers to keep them compliant. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

5:45 a.m.

I enjoyed some Guylian Belgian chocolate. It was good. My tongue is aching like a real b***h. I hope I'll be okay soon. I'm going to sleep soon. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Couldn't sleep, so I watched great TV. I need to time it right, so the drugs can put me to sleep.

7:15 p.m.

I did business stuff. I did interviews with like 10 people: often interviews lasted 1 hour or more each, some were quick. I'm getting hungry. I think we'll get pizza. I'm wondering what happened to Thilanga uncle, need to work on things to move forward with business deals. My mum must talk to him. Things will work out most likely.

11:30 p.m.

My mum gave me Orapaste oral paste to put on the back of my tongue as it's aching. I'm no doctor, but I guess, it's a mouth ulcer or something. It hurts! But it was aching for days and I'm glad I found a remedy at least now.

I'm listening to music. Soon, I'll watch The Queen's Gambit -- which is 8 out of 10 very good. I love chess, it's one of my favourite games even though I'm terrible at it and lose all the times.

11:45 p.m.

█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ███████████████████████████████████████ It's just an ulcer. According to Web MD:

"No one knows what causes these small, painful blisters inside your mouth. Triggers include hypersensitivity, infection, hormones, stress, and not getting enough of some vitamins. Also called aphthous ulcers, canker sores can show up on the tongue, cheek, even your gums. They usually last a week or two."