Eight Difficult, Outdated Ways to Excel
— The Eight Virtues of the Samurai —
More than a century ago, President Teddy Roosevelt raved about a new English-language
January 2008 Archives
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Why a Company Founder Worth $14 Million Took a Beginner’s Class in Entrepreneurship
An entrepreneur I met years ago recently sold his company for a large sum, and wound up with some $14
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Poverty, the Pulitzer, & the Beauty of Letting Go
The latest Pulitzer Prize in fiction was awarded to Cormac McCarthy for his newest novel, The Road. This 75-year-old author
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The Weight of Compensation, the Lightness of Contentment
Every Monday morning at Soul Shelter headquarters in Portland’s Hawthorne District, Mark and I hold a directors meeting (I’m Director
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Why a Multimillionaire Businessman Took a Beginner’s Class in Entrepreneurship
An entrepreneur I met years ago recently sold his company for a large sum on excellent terms, and wound up
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Life Without Principle (or Interest)
With this post we inaugurate CommonSensical, a periodic feature here at Soul Shelter, in which we’ll offer commentary from thinkers and
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Want to Achieve Your Goal? Avoid E-Mail!
— CCPT™ points the way —
My career is deeply intertwined with Japan, and a stay in Tokyo late last year
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Measures of Success
A major job hazard in my line of work as a novelist is an occasional looming sense of futility. Futility
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Happiness is Turning Off the Computer
— A computer that sleeps all weekend is a tiny bit of happiness —
Some months ago I watched an intriguing
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Fulfillment: A Work in Progress
My vocation entails years of labor often resulting in maddeningly unquantifiable results. Because this is so, it has revealed to
