Tell her I really liked this blog post.
I want to start this new year with an admonition, for all those who are still working at a day job, and thinking that at some point they may want to run their own business, but who haven’t decided to do so yet.
Register a business, today.
It’s got all the hallmarks of encouraging (from my wife’s perspective) my most infuriating personality traits.
- Open-ended project? check.
- Might consume extraordinary amounts of time? check.
- Doesn’t even exist except as a partially-implemented idea? check.
- Probably won’t happen so all that time she’d spend stressing about me doing something stupid would be for nothing? check.
Why pull a single thread out of your shirt and let it hang there? Just because you want to remind yourself to get a new shirt some day? Just because you like doing stuff? What does that even mean? Stop being so stupid!
Not Unreasonable 