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title: "Everyone has a boss" date: 2026-01-18 description: "I had always expected to be an Entrepreneur. As an American, we are born into a world where your safety and health depends on having deep pockets when (not if) an emergency occurs." img: "/img/dilbert.png" draft: false tags: business leadership technology--- I had always expected to be an Entrepreneur. As an American, we are born into a world where your safety and health depends on having deep pockets when (not if) an emergency occurs. Around the turn of the century the safest road was being a "company man." Stay on the rails: Work hard in school, go to a good university, work at a big company... and 10-15 years later after 60 hours a week of mind-numbing work, corporate politics, with your body (and soul) deteriorating you would no longer be "pay-check-to-pay-check". 10-15 years after that you might even pass for successful. This was the narrative of success, and it sounded terrible to me. For better or worse, I was born…