My New Job

I realized yesterday night what my new job is. We hosted a dinner for a few friends and during the conversation it became very clear. I've learned so much about cooking, investing, wine, cineography et cetera during the past few weeks as a man of leisure. Most people exhaust themselves working (mostly for good reasons) and are too tired to learn. In the short-term that is obviously sometimes a necessity but long-term intellectual suicide.

I spend my days learning new things, accelerating my knowledge within areas I really care about. Last week I learned everything about strategic options investments and this week I plan to learn everything there is about winemaking in the Mendoza region in Argentina. The following week I'd like to deepen my knowledge about Oysters. It's definitely an aquired taste but so are the best things in life.

The desire to find the truth about things really made the corporate world challenging for me. The truth was very often put aside in favor of the political game. I obviously realize that politics are the measures you take to make your agenda the objective truth. In many cases they go hand in hand but it also happens very frequently that the overall long-term mission is suffering due to the short-term political gains. That's a very destructive and demoralizing situation.

But these days there are no political games to worry about. Only the drive to learn more cause it answers the questions I have and satisfies my curiosity. Life to me is about learning about the world and about oneself. Yes, it would be great if I could do things while sitting in a nice Eames soft management chair but the personal pleasure is no less while doing it in an old replica. It's the path and not the goal that makes the journey worth travelling.