For the past thirty-plus years I’ve had varying degrees of success as an entrepreneur — from extraordinary to moderate to abject failure in 2001 with bursting of the dot-com bubble. That business failure is why I went back to work as an employee. In a start-up company. Which I helped to start up.
Words and Friends
Recently, I reread one of my favorite sci-fi books, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Several chapters into the book I ran across an unfamiliar word — tiffin: “. . . books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch.” When I read the book in my twenties, I gleaned the meaning of […]
