Betting on Yourself

I think the word entrepreneurship has come to at least connote tech and startups for most people.

I wonder if it is more interesting to think of about betting on yourself.

Under this definition, the following activities are entrepreneurial:

• Building an app in your spare time

• Saving your money and buying a Chik-Fil-A franchise

• Raising capital and building a team to create a moonshot business

• Playing your original music at a coffee shop

• Setting up a stand at the farmers' market

• Putting yourself through college

• Writing a book or a monologue

• Bringing up an initiative at work and pushing to lead it

• Learning the ropes of a family business with an eye toward running it eventually

In all cases, you are betting that your effort, risk, and determination will yield you something--perhaps money, but perhaps something else: satisfaction, relationships, learning.

Anyway, no great insight here, other than that I think encouraging this idea of "betting on oneself" (in the broad sense I've outlined) would be a social good in an enlightened hybrid socialist-capitalist society.

More on this later, but it's worth thinking about what forces prevent us from placing these bets.

Today's goals:

1. Product work for AltaClaro

2. Get and send my mom a birthday card

3. Get my hair did

4. Non-fiction reading

5. Indoor workout

6. Wine and dreams-->goals-->plan session