[mark_l_watson]

I know a few people who became very wealthy by starting companies or businesses but entrepreneurship is not the only path to success.

IMO, the world is better off with a good mix of long shot bets to build large scale businesses and also many people being very happy to run solo or small businesses providing services or selling products on a small scale.

I am sometimes critical of Google, FB, Microsoft, and Amazon - sometimes they deserve criticism - but except for FB all of these companies also enrich my life and I am happy they are in business.

I am also happy personally to have been a consultant, very well paid wage slave for large companies, and have a small business as an author and sometimes selling niche AI software products. I never got very rich, but I have usually just worked 25 to 32 hours a week, with several times in my life taking many years of mostly leisure time.

There are many ways to be successful in life - choose wisely!

[ackbar03]

What kind of niche ai products do you work with? Curious to know if your ok to share

[mark_l_watson]

A natural language processing toolkit that I wrote in Common Lisp about 15 years ago and converted to Ruby about 10 years ago. A simplified version in Haskell is in my Haskell book and a simpler version is also in my Common Lisp book - all the book code is on github https://github.com/mark-watson?tab=repositories