People at various times over the past ten years have asked why I don't go into business for myself. I've always taken it as a compliment, that the people involved think that I've somehow got the intelligence and drive and discipline to work for myself.

But I've always known inside that I'm missing some key skills to make it work. And reading this (Entrepreneurship - A Reckoning) only underlies it even more. I can't market myself or products very well, I don't disseminate very well, and I just lack the idealism that an entrepreneur needs to get off the ground. My ability to see potential problems and adjust course accordingly works great when you're an I.T. manager, but, you need a certain willful blindness when working for yourself. Otherwise, the stress of knowing most businesses implode in the first 5 years will just kill you.

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Sometimes, it's hard to play music (or do any sort of art thing), when you see the real professionals and talented amateurs do it, and you think "Sweet Jesus, why the hell do I bother? I'm never going to be that good."

Today, however, I saw something on a friend's blog, which reminded me that even professional musicians like BNL can't do everything perfectly in a single take. Though, after seeing the Double Dippers show on S&D 3, you would think I would have been reminded of this earlier. (8-)

Keep playing, performing, dancing and singing. In the end, it's not about what other people think of what you do -- it's about what you think of what you do.

Tags: philosophy

Fair play still exists, and thank God for that. Thanks to intenselaura for tossing this my way...

Opponents carry injured home run hitter around the bases

I needed a reminder of this truth: "It is still a beautiful world, for all the evil in it. Let us not lose sight of that, no matter how dark the future may seem."

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