September 26, 1986
Ed Bernstein called his last P.D. meeting this afternoon. He’s leaving to head up Broderbund’s fledgling board games division. DOUG HIMSELF will be taking over as acting head of P.D. He’ll be taking my desk, the better to stay in touch with the people. So I’ll be moving into Ed’s office. Life is strange.
P.D. is throwing Ed a goodbye party. “Better the devil we know than the deep blue sea,” Steve said.
At lunch, Doug said: “You seem to have a very strong entrepreneurial bent.” I was surprised, and said something about how I’d probably inherited it from my father.
Coming out here was definitely the right thing to do. In Chappaqua, I was in a rut. Now, I’m in the thick of it. It’s great.
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Bye bye Ed! Wanker.
What an interesting quote: “Better the devil we know than the deep blue sea.” It’s a mashup of. “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know” and “Between the devil and the deep blue sea,” which has the same meaning as “Between a rock and a hard place.” Yet despite the error, it still works; and oddly enough, it sounds better.