by Tim Denning | Apr 15, 2024 | Startups
He worked 80-hour weeks for a law firm. That earned him $900k a year as a 32 year old. Then his wife got pregnant. When she was 4 weeks away from giving birth, he asked the partners for a day off to be there to meet his child. They said no. They gave him a lecture...
by Tim Denning | Feb 6, 2023 | Startups
Many careers die due to a lack of risk. The owners of those careers don’t know life took a big dump on them and they won’t find out until it’s too late — or never. Risk is a concept we’re programmed to avoid. We think we’re taking enough risk but most of us aren’t. So...
by Tim Denning | Oct 24, 2022 | Startups
Not everyone wants to quit their job and live the laptop lifestyle. I was that guy for years. The appeal of entrepreneurship meant nothing to me. I liked the snug fit of corporate life. I started at the bottom of the corporate ladder in an entry-level job, working for...
by Tim Denning | Oct 10, 2022 | Success
Once you become institutionalized, the corporate ladder is all you know. You get trapped in a bubble. Some extremists call it living inside the corporate Matrix. I’m not as harsh as that as I got brainwashed by the corporate world, too. This led me to climb fast up...
