## Metadata - Author: [[Benn Stancil]] - Full Title:: 9-9-6-0 - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/9-9-6-0 - Read date:: [[2025-11-29]] ## Highlights >  ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kb7bswx6xjk7b6760s9xbvbw)) >  ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kb7bswy0zxtj3jmfg7vdxkwe)) > A few years of hard work, funded by borrowed money. And what’s just a few years? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kb7bdr2n18ejn1rvv6zb14kt)) > [There is a point during every party](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7jo5Cr6WUA), when the alcohol takes hold and the music swallows you whole, that you lose yourself in the fever. The moment, indomitable. The walls, impenetrable. But how quickly a night can turn. [How quickly a tune can change.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjiVUnNJ4Ko) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kb7bebtgcty6y47ct2qdysdc)) > Most of us will, at worst, be passing extras in someone else’s tragedy; we are unlikely to be its main character. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kb7bqgg24v751tk1jttjpxf4)) > That part—their disappointment; yours; somebody’s—is inevitable. Though it can’t be stopped, and their time cannot returned, that doesn’t mean nothing can be done. Because in the very long term, as Calvin says, the memories matter than the success. > But their memories require us. So, before it is too late: Be Hobbes. Pay attention. Watch your friends work; see what they are sacrificing. Call them; email them; wish them a happy birthday, even if you cannot tell them directly. See, and show them that you see. > Because when a bubble bursts, and people’s work gets erased and their hours wasted, all that remains is what other people witnessed. And it is on each of us remember what they hope we do not forget. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kb7bwy6dmgqrz57x1npxg0q4))