Our market was/is (I need a better word than corrupt) such that business couldn't continue without his relationship massaging. I tried to talk to the gatekeepers, but they wouldn't even acknowledge me. I suspect he instructed them, I'll never know.
He tried to hire minimum wage contractors to replace me,
and he found out the business couldn't work without actual expertise. This surprised him and pissed off the clients he was trying to keep - he promised the best and delivered incompetence.
We have not spoken since.
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As for me...
I'm not founding any more for-profit companies any time soon. Instead, I have found 'my place' at [Sudbury Model Schools](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school) and plan to make my life about advancing human rights for students. Our countries need leadership, and our industrial schooling model is not capable of producing it. For our liberal democracies, this is an existential threat.
A note on Sudbury Schools: the ideas that seem so natural to them in that environment are actually radical and difficult to grasp for most people who went through traditional schooling. It is not fast or easy to understand, it takes while to 'click'. If you take the time to understand what they're doing, you'll be rewarded.
To that end, I would recommend one of the original founders' latest book, a retrospective of the decades the schools have been in operation: [A Place to Grow](http://bookstore.sudburyvalley.org/product/place-grow) (If you click to 'Sample Chapter', you'll be able to read a significant fraction of the book for free.)
Our market was/is (I need a better word than corrupt) such that business couldn't continue without his relationship massaging. I tried to talk to the gatekeepers, but they wouldn't even acknowledge me. I suspect he instructed them, I'll never know.
He tried to hire minimum wage contractors to replace me, and he found out the business couldn't work without actual expertise. This surprised him and pissed off the clients he was trying to keep - he promised the best and delivered incompetence.
We have not spoken since.
---
As for me... I'm not founding any more for-profit companies any time soon. Instead, I have found 'my place' at [Sudbury Model Schools](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school) and plan to make my life about advancing human rights for students. Our countries need leadership, and our industrial schooling model is not capable of producing it. For our liberal democracies, this is an existential threat.
A note on Sudbury Schools: the ideas that seem so natural to them in that environment are actually radical and difficult to grasp for most people who went through traditional schooling. It is not fast or easy to understand, it takes while to 'click'. If you take the time to understand what they're doing, you'll be rewarded.
To that end, I would recommend one of the original founders' latest book, a retrospective of the decades the schools have been in operation: [A Place to Grow](http://bookstore.sudburyvalley.org/product/place-grow) (If you click to 'Sample Chapter', you'll be able to read a significant fraction of the book for free.)
:)