Faith, Work, and Money — West of the Blacktop
There are few financial decisions that combine emotion, marketing, and bad math as efficiently as buying a new car. I understand the appeal. I’ve owned new vehicles. They smell good, look sharp, and carry a sense of order that’s easy to confuse with progress. For a brief moment, everything feels squared away. Then reality resumes. … Read more
After enough years, you stop looking for secrets. What you start looking for instead is what still holds up after decades of pressure. I’ve spent most of my life working — not experimenting, not theorizing, but building, fixing, selling, managing, failing, recovering, and repeating. Some lessons I learned early. Others took far too long. None … Read more
I’m writing this at seventy-four years old, not because I’ve figured life out, but because I’ve lived long enough to know how much of what passes for advice today doesn’t survive contact with reality. I’ve lived most of my life west of the blacktop — sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively. By blacktop, I mean the paved … Read more