One day I told myself that I was done checking voice mail.
I am a busy man with a busy life I recognized, and the people who need to get a hold of me could text me the same information and it would take me 3, maybe 5 seconds to read.
Instead of doing that, in my business life, people were taking up 1 or 2 minutes of my time with each missed call, and ten or twenty voicemails a day were not unusual. Often enough, they were not even people I wanted to hear from.
I was done with voice mail. It had turned into such a hassle. I vowed to never listen to another voice mail again.
So I simply called my phone carrier and asked them to turn off my voicemail.
“Not possible,” they said.
“Not possible?!”
I had a field day with that one. I pushed and prodded every which way against the various phone company departments, until I finally concluded that it was either 1.) not possible (maybe I should have just listened to begin with) or 2.) it was going to be too resource intensive for me to achieve.
At about the same time I came to that conclusion, I realized something else. I realized I could just keep my voicemail inbox full. That would achieve the same result. I quickly got off the phone with the phone company, and from that day forward, I stopped deleting my voicemails.
Since that day in 2018 that my voicemail inbox filled up, I have not received another voicemail again.
The only difference between a full voicemail box since 2018 and a non-existent voicemail box (and it is a sizeable difference) is that a handful of self-righteous people a month tell me my voicemail is full. Also, some well-intentioned people point that out too, but mostly self-righteous people.
Sometimes when life tells you “not possible,” there are simple methods to cleverly work around problems. Another word to say, “he who cleverly works around a problem,” is “hacker.”
Face Masks In One Lesson, is a book full of such hacks, such clever workarounds. It is written by me, and while I like to embrace that hacker way of seeing the world, I know that I am just one of the many hackers who read these pages. We hack medicine, we hack diets, we hack corporate structures, we hack government systems. So many of the readers of this email newsletter and I do not use computers to “hack” these systems in the traditional sense of the word. We figure out the workarounds. We figure out the loopholes.
You name the topic, the readers of these pages are forever writing me with 1.) their latest exciting hack to share with me or 2.) asking me to strategize with them to help sort out a workaround. That is an exciting community to get to be a part of.
If you are wearing a mask still, for any reason, if you know anyone wearing a mask, for any reason, Face Masks in One Lesson is there to provide the workarounds to get you past that. Tap here to get a copy sent your way.
Allan Stevo
Great read as always, I just found you on Substack.
I wanted to reach out and let you know how powerful your article was yesterday. I do have children and grandchildren and I have the same sense of urgency as you do. We are certainly against the clock, and the deck is stacked against us between the mainstream mockingbird media, Hollywood, social media & the bankers who keep us in debt so we have to work our entire lives. I do believe articles like the one you wrote yesterday sets the tone we need as a truth community.
Lastly, I am on SpeakFreeRadio.com three times a week from 10 AM to Noon ET, and I would love to have you on in the near future. It would be a great venue to showcase your work. My show also goes out in the form of a podcast when it's over and we garner upwards of 2,000 downloads per day. If you're interested feel free to email me at thefacthunter@mail.com. Either way, keep up the tremendous work, I'm a huge fan of your work. God bless & be well.