There are people who take life slowly, accept it on its terms, meditate, read about meditation, and internalize books like “Wherever You Go, There You Are,” a bestseller by a guy with a hyphenated name. I’m more of a Malcolm Gladwell fan — Outliers or his newest book “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants.”
Maybe I’m just naturally the type that will spend 10,000 hours practicing, sharpening, mastering, thinking about the advantages a startup has over leaders in the market, getting back in the game. I’ve been in enterprise software for 30 years and the cloud since its formation. A long time ago, I faced the fact that I don’t have the basketball gene (although I do coach several boys’ sports teams) and I’m pretty sure meditating will not increase my productivity as a start-up CEO. I could be wrong on the meditating part.