This year marks the third year in a row that we’ve been outside the US for the 4th of July. That’s a real bummer, because my brother’s birthday is on July 4th and I love to hoist a beer with him on his day.
Thinking and writing from France this week, I’m coming to a clearer perspective on the point of view that Bandit and I have been developing over the past year. What we are really doing here at NotanMBA is celebrating the lives and careers of Indies (independent entrepreneurs). Indeed, there are entrepreneurs the world over, more now than ever before. But independent and independently-minded entrepreneurs–people who are hard wired not to take orders or shit from anyone–are one of America’s great exports.
Not to make this a nationalistic thing. Believe me. As an anthropologist, I’m the first to note that religion and nationalism have been the sources of more war and death over the past few thousands of years than any other ologies or isms, so I am no fan there.
In the American case, though, there can be no doubt that one of our Texas-sized upsides as a society is the proliferation of radical entrepreneurs- antipreneurs. People who use the tools, metrics, technologies and organizations of business to make an independent living for themselves and the world a better place at the same time. I’m a fan here…
The data are there. It happens everyday. This is why we stick with it at NotanMBA.
But please…Can you lay off the fucking fireworks…Enough already!
The Butcher
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