Entrepreneurship

Wednesday

Mary Kate Skehan

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When I was in high school, I worked at an ice rink in the winter and a swimming pool in the summer. My friends toiled at Target and gofered at golf courses, making minimum wage and spending it on gas and low-rise jeans from Abercrombie: it was 2008, after all. These days, gas may still cost $4 per gallon, but now the jeans are high-waisted and the teens are more ambitious. My youngest brother Ted is 18. He spent the summer before his first year in college working in a cheese shop, sweeping floors and straining ricotta: a classic summer job, tedious and stress-free. Yet some of his friends are taking a different route. Ted’s buddy Tom just cashed out $3,000 in bitcoin winnings to buy a weeklong Airbnb in Ocean City, Maryland for all his friends.

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Monday

Zak Slayback

Forget Zoom college: it’s time for America’s youth to embrace entrepreneurship

In the fall, thousands of college campuses across the country could be set to move online. Students will find themselves paying amounts in excess of $40,000 a year for glorified Zoom sessions. Even more young professionals will be considering grad school as a way to ride out the biggest recession we’ve seen in a generation. It will be grad school with all the cost and hardly any of the networking benefits. But there’s another option: we can build. We can use the crisis and the move online as a reason to take risks, risks that once seemed crazy or impractical are suddenly worthwhile. Whether it’s making leaps in genetic engineering or learning how to practically homestead, building is acceptable again.

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Sunday

Ben Sixsmith

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People sometimes laugh when I call myself a businessman, an entrepreneur and a CEO.‘Ben,’ they say, ‘You are a freelance writer and teacher and you opened a business so you could pay taxes. You have no offices, employees or financial risk.’Well, as we entrepreneurs know, there are always envious people who will try to drag you down to their lazy level.Still, I have trouble growing my business. I have wondered if my life could be more optimized for success. Could I be more healthy? Could I be more motivated? Could I have more inspiration? Could a bird have wings?Happily, experts are on hand to help me. The internet is awash with advice and inspiration for optimizing your health, productivity and happiness.

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