Treating the Diary as Public Relations While Waiting on Big Cyber Deals

4:00 p.m.

I just woke up from a deep sleep. It was a good sleep.

I do not feel attending Buddhist functions is essential to me because I participate closely in Bhante Saranapala's work in Canada online and via Messenger.

I remember in England, I had to wake up early, pack my heavy suitcase, then haul the suitcase for hours in the train or car to Heathrow airport or St. Pancras King's Cross station. In the same way, if it was essential, I would have attended this function.

I believe Sandalal Priyantha Kumara Edirisinghe was handling this event, where a woman donated her house as a new Buddhist temple or shrine.

I do not hate Sandalal. He is a good man. He made a mistake telling me over the phone he would block me from soliciting business with People's Bank, and i do not consider him a friend or someone I would want as a friend, but as he is my uncle Thilanga's friend, I chose to honour and not press any charges:

I decided firmly to protect his name from public ruination, although, this was a one off favour.

Someone like James, it is also worth protecting him, you do not want to destroy innocent people, you want to put them on the right path:

Telling James, look, we are not third world thugs looking for a cut of earnings, to pay bribes and engage in corruption, let us work together to build a proper, lasting Sri Lanka free from this kind of evil.

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I love Buddhism. I was thinking when I woke up, from a dream I cannot remember, that Buddhism is a platform. It is a technology. It is a spiritual technology to develop spiritual insights, wisdom and happiness.

4:15 p.m.

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I am watching a MasterClass by Daniel Pink on sales and persuasion. The chapters in this series are:

(1) Meet Your Instructor

(2) Sales Trends

(3) Attunement -- Finding Common Ground

(4) Serve Your Audience

(5) Exercise -- Creating a Discussion Map

(6) Getting Others to Act

(7) Clarity -- Making Your Message Count

(8) Create a Connection by Mimicking

(9) Persuasive Framing

(10) Pitching Like a Pro

(11) Exercise -- Asking for a Raise

(12) Buoyancy -- Develop a Resilient Mindset

(13) Introvert, Extrovert, or Ambivert

(14) Persuade Yourself -- How to Self-Motivate

(15) Using Timing to Become a Better Persuader

(16) Beginnings, Middles, and Endings

I was thinking of Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein's views on advertising. I will run a great advertisement campaign. This Captain's Log is part of my Public Relations campaign. This log is geared more for the US audience to show I am understanding, open and true.

4:30 p.m.

I could hear aircraft fighter jets flying over my mum's house. I love aircrafts.

If I was in the military:

I would want to be in air force, artillery unit, sniper unit, ambulance or medical, navy or even the infantry.

I would want to work in armaments, logistics, supply, reconnaissance/ intelligence and food.

I remember in Singapore, Martinn Teng uncle is very rich and influential, he got me VIP section tickets very close to the important Singaporeans--during the Singapore National Day Parade. When the F16 flew over, I was amazed, I looked up in awe, the majestic technology, my face was on the big screen--I knew, I was going to be someone one day.

Lee Kuan Yew, most people do not meet him, I saw him three times; once in the Holland Village tree planting ceremony, second in National Day Parade, and I am not allowed to disclose the third time.

We drove past his Oxley Road house too, the Gurkhas looked at, it was frightening!

Prasanga Menikdiwela played cricket with him during a secret visit to SL as her father was President JR's secretary -- which is cool.

He is an inspiration, he was someone who dreamt big, he dreamt of a Singapore where people were safe, united and happy.

I felt sad about how the MiGs or Kfirs flew over my house because I thought about the Tamils that were killed. It was cruel. It was something we could have avoided with good leadership. The whole 25 year war was born out of ignorance. It was over a language.

I felt somewhat scared my house would be bombed, but then I realised, we are the ones who give the bombing coordinates and the bombs--Dr Sameera De Alwis only gave the artillery bombardment coordinates, which is "why" (apparently, unverified) the LTTE run Capital Maharaja fired him!

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6:30 p.m.

I am working on our website. There is a very hostile attitude towards startups in SL. I am waiting on Thilanga uncle to intercede with prospects. It is not advisable or sensible for him to delay, as this creates profound risk for him as we will not be able to work on his success carefully and in a timely manner. You cannot force a Thilanga Presidency, if he lacks the ability or judgement, there is nothing you can do.

8:00 p.m.

I think Jacques thinks I am a "chairboy" more than a "chairman". I do not think he would be a "chair-old-man". I do not know if we should call it chairperson to be less sexist. It is a sexist term. It causes major cognitive dissonance when Marillyn Hewson, Adena Friedman and I think Phoebe running those big US companies called themselves, "chairman".

9:00 p.m.

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9:00 p.m.

(b)

I will be restricting my friends' list on Facebook further. People we are not engaged in active, current contact, we need to remove. I also happen to prefer working with open persons for business or for friendship.

There are people in my team, that are different. Denzil ██████ is open, my friend Jonathan is perfectly open, so I feel safer with them. Jacques, Nanda ██████████, they keep quiet. There are different types.

If for any reason sensitive information is shared with me, it will most likely be judged as hazardous to future activities.

If someone like Pooja Umashankar's husband Prashan Vethakan, I cannot remember his name, if this guy says, "████████████████████ raped some foreigner", I will most likely write it down, as ████████ is a family friend, and so, it is important to protect our family friends strategically. If it is not true, he can make a decision to stay friends with him.

It is a terribly stupid mistake to think you can "trust" me to believe rubbish stories about family friends.

If I am informed someone is saying anything about me by anyone, I will call them, ask them what is up, if it is true, I will ignore, if it is bullshit, I will ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

If the information is regarding business or cyber, it will most likely only be shared as names of people and a general summary. This is done for the purpose of shielding against any future accusations of bribery and corruption. In fact, this is the only way to defend against a criminal investigation and to alleviate the terrifyingly poor ranking in the global corruption index SL has found SL in. If I do not declare it, it is a suspicious business activity -- simple as this.

If it is secret, it will be said, "we made an agreement on cyber" or "intelligence", and the date in our internal company records. Details may be shared and explained to our team, but this may be restricted -- and post NDA. The only aspects of a secret cyber or intelligence agreement that will be communicated will be who is responsible, what is the purpose and only if we are permitted to share this information if it is a private sector firm in the US or a state actor or linked firm like China or a "China IT Company PLC".

I sent Shankha Palansuriya a courtesy email, then removed him as a friend on Facebook. I do not wish to keep people I am not actually friends with on FB. If I am a friend of someone's I expect the same courtesy and respect I show them. I think we tried to speak with his dad, Channa at Sampath Bank, it did not work out. It is fine, he probably did not care or take it seriously, or maybe, he did not have any influence, or reasons to help a friend or my dad, but we appreciate his support. I am ready to help them win something seriously, but anyway, these guys live in Canada. They can be friends with Jagath uncle or cousin Chadu.

* The following two paragraphs are just personal notes for my future reference *

Channa Palansuriya introduced us to Bhante Saranapala. Who is aware of Jonathan Hirshon because I told him and then introduced him in good standing and in good rapport as a friend. There is a slight risk of information leaks, but this is not a significant threat. If for instance, someone named confides a secret, it may be betrayed by Bhante to Channa uncle, who will update his contacts in SL, such as Jagath uncle. This is not a huge risk in my view. It is not likely any information disclosed is lethal. However, information may be misrepresented to portray our friends as dangerous individuals who are up to no good -- as people will always critically interpret data. This may result in social disqualification in SL market or leaks to the USA enemies***, such as █████ or other known adversaries. The mediocre quality of thinking, flagrant ignoring of corporate values, lack of sophistication, it is a present, very real danger in SL. I advise, we do not reveal any information regarding sensitive business--even to a monk! Any information already confided should be treated as compromised/betrayed, act towards normalising the data to salvage. For instance, despite public perception of intelligence, it is a perfectly legitimate area, a requisite to public security and civilian safety--details of which should ideally be divulged to trusted familiar people who share similar long strategic viewpoints and tactics adjudged vital to preserve such views.

I think my interpretation of friendship or business and partner is quite different to the definitions of these terms in SL. I have adopted US, California definitions. This person, Shankha did not really have any real direct relationship, it was a bullshit friendship. The father Channa knew my dad, seems to act very weirdly, talking to me as a friend, but has some kind of mental reservation it would seem. I try my best to improve competitiveness, I like to get the top guys. I think the top guys are more effective. I did notice a girl Casimira Karunaratne had gone to Harvard to do IT, I thought *This will look fantastic in the company website. The customers will see Harvard, then buy. The customers may complain I did management studies, not IT. So, the second I show this, it will be perfect.* The person was probably upset, went away. Though, strictly not communicated to any individuals or her, I did "believe" that in accordance with Buddhist law of karma, if my dad made ████████████** at Edna Engineering within a 2 year or less state ordered or COYLE lobbying public tenders to engineer within a 2 year or less (prior to 2005) production window, which had █████████████████████████████████████████████added later, then ██████████ Tamil LTTE fighters or civilians according to Channel 4, then it is bad karma, I might die as the karma affects me. I did go a little overboard imagining this will happen--Bhante did listen and help. I think there will be others to take my place, this girl Casimira, is not a cold blooded psychopath. We need to make sure there is someone capable to replace myself. I think I know just who. There is a list of candidates, each having to prove themselves as killers.

* Not a significant risk, none of the named are assets.

** We have updated, there are more dangerous, effective armaments we seek to produce in close partnership with many nations -- for deployment in international theatres of war.

*** The nonaligned status of SL is strategically helpful to Cyberspace Command solutions. This helps to keep SL safe. The lack of buy in from SL authorities has damaged the cyber security rating of SL, we are working on this, but cooperation is challenging.

10:30 p.m.

I am going to see what is to be found for my dinner.

11:00 p.m.

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11:30 p.m.

I ordered McDonald's for dinner. I knocked on living room door, a bit too loudly, as I wanted to wake my mum up. She gave me cash. There is an Uber Eats offer. X LKR off or something if it is over x value. I love McDonald's. It is my go to comfort food. If you had to choose one food you can eat every day for the rest of your life, it would be Japanese sushi/ sashimi or southern French or McDonald's.

I am a bit sleepy. I will continue to do work. I am distressed to learn there are a lot of attacks in SL. You cannot trust anybody. If someone betrays, you must give them hell, bring them to account, communicate. I was thinking about it, I got the cheeseburger. I do not like the whole killing a cow thing, it bothers me, but it is just an animal, I am not a Buddhist, I am not a Hindu, ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████