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  • Do not read blogs

    ...and don't read books by people who write blogs. Why? Because they can lead you places that are uncomfortable. They're not to blame for starting me down this unfamiliar path, but I can certainly say they sped up my pace. Where have I gone? Where do I find myself? Shortly before the blogs, I did something unpredictable ...
    Posted to A Precarious Balance (Weblog) by Sean on December 30, 2006
  • Making the Jump

    At one point I thought I'd never make the jump from being an employee to being self-employed. The software I had written was selling, but not enough to support my family. At the time, we had 3 children aged 5 and under. It seemed a safer bet to accept a job offer with TurboPower, an established Independent Software Vendor (ISV) ...
    Posted to A Precarious Balance (Weblog) by Sean on August 19, 2005
  • The power of another's belief

    In the previous post, I described how I wanted to work for myself instead of others. The idea of writing and distributing software using a marketing method named shareware, combined with a development tool named Borland Delphi, gave me the hope of doing so. What I didn't describe was my married life over those first ...
    Posted to A Precarious Balance (Weblog) by Sean on July 24, 2005