Retirement

I’m good at many things, having mastered many activities in my working life.

And yet, these are the “only” things of excellence that I can point to with specific job experience:

• Physical Chemistry research
• R&D and product development
• R&D management
• IP management
• Venture Capital investment
• Startup founder
• Start up CEO
• Growth stage tech CEO

I was very good at all of these. But as soon it was clear to me that I could rise to the top of one pile, I pissed off to the next challenge. Call that a low threshold of boredom.

Hence, I am the master of many things and the king of none!

Which is why, in my early and unexpected retirement, I am not inundated with offers.

Oh, also because I’m a realist, a cynic, a critic, an iconoclast. In this social media, gushing good news era, I’m considered toxic.

And, anyone with half a brain can see that I despise our culture, both general and business. That counts against me.

In other words, I’m a self-confessed outsider. I’m not even an outsider’s outsider. If were to be in a party it’d be the unity party, of one.

The worm may turn and realism may come back into vogue. But I don’t think that will happen in my lifetime; Spengler suggests not. We are well down a downhill slope – The decline of the West, and the rest.

I’ll just have to cope doing whatever I cook up in my dotage.