[CONTINUED FROM PART 3] 2008 One Sailboat and One Corporate Takeover When I closed out the last post I touched on the end of my time as a Marketing Director. I glossed over the fact that I found myself newly homeless, jobless, and relationship-less in the span of a few weeks. I’m not a big fan of...

[CONTINUED FROM PART 2] 2007 From Voluntary Exile to Forced Exile So I arrived back in Portland, Oregon just in time to ring in 2007. I had somewhere in the neighborhood of $37 in the bank as I mentioned before. You know the moment when you start trying to figure out if there’s an ATM that dispenses...

[CONTINUED FROM PART 1] The Rest of 2004 Through 2005 [Diving into Internet Marketing] After the demise of my stillborn career as a hedge fund manager, I was pretty much clueless as far as what to do. I had some meager savings in the bank and some credit cards with available balances. What I didn’t have was [...

Sometimes I wonder how I arrived at the here and now. I’m not the only one. When you’re more or less an urban kind of guy who lives alone on a sailboat in a town with a population sign reflecting a human population of only a little over 6,000, people tend to ask questions. It...

I just saw a random blip about the U.S. dollar becoming less important in the international monetary framework and had to write. This ties into my recent posts a little more closely than I generally like, but it’s so common and so important that I had to blurt it out. Disclaimer: I am a U.S. citizen [...]

The motivation for this post springs partially from personal annoyance, anger, disgust, or some other negative emotion. The rest comes from my strong desire protect those early in their entrepreneurial development from the fear of a bleak future sculpted by the lies and incompetence of those in positions of apparent authority. Enter the rag in my [...]