I've been working like a mo-fo. I feel like I'm serving four masters right now. I've been interviewing for what seems like forever for this job with BSC. It's down to me and one other candidate. I have my boss at my current job in town with me next week and I am far from prepared. I spend perhaps 60% of my time either working on or thinking about my startup business. The startup is going extremely well. If all goes well, we will launch in January. The biggest hurdles for us are regulatory and cost based. I tell you what... the more time I spend working on startups, the more sympathetic I become towards libertarianism. Ambiguous regulation and regulators who's job it is to give you a knee-jerk "no" stifle creativity and innovation. -This is real. Still, we have made some tremendous strides and we have an AMAZING team of people working on it. I'm pretty damn excited to share it with you all. I would like to wait till we are launched though. It's incredible how much work goes in to doing something like this. It's a kick ass concept that could have a very real impact on the world. Anyways, have a great rest of your week Hubski! -TNG
Orson Scott Card, in one of his rare moments of brilliance, observed that the greatest contribution the Romans ever made to the human race was bureaucracy. His point was that with a million petty bureaucrats between you and change, change requires killing a million petty bureaucrats... which is why the Roman Empire lasted through Caligula, Nero, and a dozen lesser fuck-ups while the Macedonians were effectively assed out the minute Alexander the Great kicked it. Surely by now you've learned the trick to regulators. It's called "ego stroking."