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> I’ve made my living breaking all the “rules” and by doing everything wrong.

I'd like to hear more about this.




I dropped out of high school, didn't go to college, took a break from my career to serve in the Army, started a business with an empty bank account (multiple times), didn't pay my taxes until I could afford to do so, took big risks, never asked permission at clients just did what I thought was best for them (breaking all kinds of internal rules), violated contracts and non-competes, skirted the law on international movements of money and doing business with sketchy places, other things I won't mention that are technically legal but could get me in hot water if someone didn't like me, sold things I didn't have (yet), and much more.


Do people in your life like you?


IDK, I assume so, I have long close friendships and a stable happy family.

Why wouldn't they?


From your post it sounded like you might just not care about other people. I was trying to understand where you were coming from better. Part of me likes your approach but another part made me suspect you were just an A-Hole, no offense. Seems like that is not the case.


I care very much about other people. I care so much that I am infuriated by the structures around us that make a prison for those leading lives of quiet desperation


Fair enough, you sound like a cool dude.




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