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I always wanted to be independent - I never, not once in my life, had the goal of working for someone else. It's not in my genes. In 2003 I founded Common Craft and in January of 2007 Sachi joined the company. Since then, Sachi has been the real force driving our goal of having a truly independent lifestyle.And it is ALL about lifestyle. As I've written before, we make our lifestyle a huge priority. Why choose to be independent if you can't create a job and schedule that works for you? We... Continue Reading
The other day I was getting a haircut. Making small talk (it was a $15 haircut) she asks...
Barber: So are you going back to work after this?
Me: Sort of. I work from home.
Barber: Oh, that's cool. What do you do?
Me: Me and my wife make videos, in our basement. Well, I should say that we get paid to make videos.
Barber:
Me: We have a little studio at home and we make short videos for businesses.
Barber: Oh, THAT kind of videos. I hear ya.
Me: No, no, no. Not THAT kind I swear. Our... Continue Reading
Phew. That was less of a vacation and more of a party. I need to sleep for about 28 hours to catch up. Good fun and lots of time with lifelong friends and family.
Photo: Lake Norman, NC, where I spent a lot of my childhood.
Sachi and I take our time off quite seriously and I was very inspired by a couple of posts by Hillel at Jackson Fish. It looks like they have a philosophy similar to ours regarding time away from work.
I don’t want to wait until I’m in my fifties, sixties, to... Continue Reading
Last night Sachiko and I were talking about monthly bills and what we could do without.
Cable/Satellite? Perhaps gladly. Land line? Not a problem. Cell phones? We could live.
Internet access? Never.
It was funny to me to think of the resources I grew up using and how, just over 7-8 years, Internet access has become one of the absolute must-haves. I could not imagine a world without it. Actually, I can barely imagine a world without wireless high speed access.
...Is that my brain hasn't quite caught up. The transition from IE was effortless in some ways, but I seem to be "challenged" by the tabbed interface. I exhibit great skill creating new tabs (ctrl + t), but when my intention is to go to another browser window, I still waste time looking at the bottom of the screen, like I would with IE.
I'm dedicated to changing this behavior because tabs are better and faster (like so many things with Firefox). I have been trained for years that new... Continue Reading