Enough

A letter to the best wedding creators in the world by Josh Withers

Kurt Vonnegut told a story about his friend Joe,

Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a millionaire on Shelter Island.

I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22’ has earned in its entire history?”

And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.” And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?” And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.

Mimi Sheraton in a 1976 New York Times piece told the story of walking into a KFC with Colonel Harland Sanders where he addressed a staff member,

You’re frying for 12 minutes—that’s six minutes too long. What’s more, your frying fat should have been changed a week ago. That’s the worst fried chicken I’ve ever seen. Let me see your mashed potatoes with gravy, and how do you make them?

KFC corporate commented that "raw chicken" turns customers off (who'd of thought?!) so they cook for longer just to be very sure.

Cabel Sasser of Panic Software tweeted years ago something that's stuck in my mind ever since,

I can’t help but feel there’s a wonderful and often unexplored middle ground between “die” and “grow and grow aggressively”

I'm obsessed with this unexplored space. I'm obsessed with experimenting with the joy of missing out - JOMO.