Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth

Re:Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth by ianamartin on Thursday January 22, 2015 @02:38PM (#8931235)

Those journal entries don't really read like journal entries to me. The longer entries seem more like prepared and considered stories--stuff written for an audience other than yourself. I wonder if he was keeping those as notes for a book.

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Re:Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth by denzquix on Thursday January 22, 2015 @03:09PM (#8931423)

The extracted quote at the top of the Forbes article here seems to indicate he was thinking along those lines: http://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahjeong/2015/01/22/the-dread-...

"I imagine that someday I may have a story written about my life, and it would be good to have a detailed account of it."

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Re:Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth by creeble on Thursday January 22, 2015 @02:57PM (#8931352)

A book he could never publish. Unless he got caught.

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Re:Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth by k-mcgrady on Thursday January 22, 2015 @03:45PM (#8931628)

Write it and have it published when you die I suppose is the other solution.

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Re:Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth by paulhebert on Thursday January 22, 2015 @08:54PM (#8933024)

Or after the statute of limitations runs out, but I'm not sure how long that would be for the crimes he's accused of.

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Re:Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth by gwern on Thursday January 22, 2015 @06:56PM (#8932584)

People publish books about crimes all the time.

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Re:Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth by jberryman on Thursday January 22, 2015 @03:55PM (#8931691)

I think you'd expect that from someone on the spectrum of pathological narcissism or psychopathy, which is I think not unlikely given what we know about him.

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