Most good businesses start from a hope, an idea, a need, a cause, something that needs improved, something fun to do with some friends... Many fail, some live, and very few thrive. Really thrive. You look at Facebook, Amazon, Google, The North Face, <insert company name> and you see a similar story. Starting with fun, with a need, something that needs improved, a cause... These few that thrive seem to consistently enter the abyss of corporate greed. The people that formed the cause, the improvement, solved the need, built the cause; they sell or morph from entrepreneurs and visionaries into corporate robotics backed by armies of MBA's with "process", "efficiencies", "mechanisms"

...money. Somewhere in the middle it is lost. Companies introduce "vision statements", "leadership principles", or whatever the hell they want to call them. But it is lost... Don't get me wrong, they are often very good at what they do, but at what expense? North Face? Owned by VF Corp... A huge corporate entity that really doesn't care. Facebook... Is that a post or an ad for the next speaker system? "Going public! We will all be rich."

Send me back in time man...

There's something about them. Often uncomfortable, tight, and you are generally in control of nothing. You put yourself in others hands but they don't seem to give a shit. Unfortunately they are necessary... Nothing else can do what they can. You appreciate them but man are they a pain in the ass. Ohh well, here I go again!

The happiest thing I can possibly imagine is me, living in a library. There would be all my favorite books there, and all my yet to come favorite books. I would read all day! And maybe all night, too. My library would be in the woods. I would be able to read with the trees. I would dive into my books like you, reader, would into a pool. Adventures would surround me constantly. But I would not only read; I would also have a Writing Corner where I wrote books. I would sell them, but I would also keep a copy too. My library would be very small; but then again, smaller is cozier. I would not be lonely because I would have friends come and stay with me. They could do what they wanted; hike in the woods or read/write with me. It would be wonderful! Just me, my friends, and my library.