Information about the book
author: Ernest Hemingwaytitle: The Old Man and the Seapages: 128
Highlights and notes
As I read this book, I annotated the passages included in this PDF: Candide - Notes
Notes and thoughts
A super simple short story with an uncomplicated message. The old man’s pursuit made me think of business. The fish being the pursuit of vanity metrics: number of stores, machines, revenues, money raised, and others. The old man loses sight of the end game - he sacrifices his efforts and the life of the fish for nothing.
In business, it’s very easy to lose sight of the end game. Otherwise we are sacrificing not only our efforts (the old man) but also those of all the other people in the company and companies which sell services to us (the fish).