Today’s employer-employee relationship is based on an outdated and frustrating model of dependency. The employer has money; the employee needs money, and the employee is therefore dependant on the employer for money to live. As…
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From Software Exec to Startup Family Farmer
A little over a year ago I traded in my high-tech, high-growth career as a software company founder and CEO for the unknown and wide open world of early retirement. Over a relaxed dinner date…
Frictionless Selling
Today, as I was driving along A1A in Daytona Beach, Florida, I saw the sign in the image above: a pizza shop declaring “We Deliver Beer.” Imagine someone sitting in their hotel at the beach….
Don’t Worry About the Tides
It seems that there is an endless stream of things to worry about. There are financial decisions to make, stock market gyrations, illnesses, and pressures at work. However, on the other side of this chorus…
Learning to Live the Simple Life
As I was returning to the office from lunch, I opened the door and saw a co-worker sitting at her desk eating a sandwich and reading a small silver book. She looked up and smiled…
Third Post
At one point in my career I wanted to learn about blogging and so I chose to do an experiment. I decided to begin a blog and write once a week for two years and…
Second Post
What’s up with the titles to these posts? As I mentioned in my First Post, founding things can be hard. To get myself over the hump of publishing this blog, I came up with the…
My First Post
This is the founding line of my blog. 🙂 Some text on a page. The beginning of a new chapter. The startup phase of a one-person endeavor… Well, let’s think about that. It may be…