“Evil isn’t done so often by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves.”
-Reinhold Niebuhr
My first post in this series was about my start-up and business failures.
Asshole To CEO, #2: Owning Up To My Business Failures
“How empty is theory in the presence of fact!”
― Mark Twain
It’s so fucking easy to blame other people for your problems.
It’s what I did for a long, long time: blame everyone else for everything, and never take ownership of my decisions and actions and how they impacted my own life.
Asshole to CEO #1: The Start
I’m writing again.
About myself, obviously, but a very different side of myself.
This time, I’m not writing about being an asshole up to my knees in crap, at least not in the way you might have come to expect from my fratire books (I retired from fratire in 2012).
Why I Stopped Angel Investing (And You Should Never Start)
I started angel investing almost by accident, which sounds strange to say. Who “accidentally” invests tens of thousands of dollars into highly speculative ventures? Well, I did.
A friend introduced me to Clayton Christopher, who was raising money for his new liquor company Deep Eddy. Their first product, a sweet tea vodka, was amazing and he was an experienced entrepreneur, so I went in.
Quotes, January 2016
“Being Loved: the feeling that another person properly recognizes and amply sympathizes with one’s buried distress.”
-Alain de Botton
“Remember, Grammar Nazis: It’s YOU’RE going to die alone.”
-Damien Fahey
“The need to be liked by people you don’t know – or like – should be treated as an illness like any other.”
-Alain de Botton
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