The Choice: Trading Security for Significance After being told I had finally become a ‘model employee,’ I took a long walk in the snow. The praise didn’t feel like a reward; it felt like a ceiling. I started asking myself the two most dangerous questions a man can ask: What could I do, and what should I do?I looked deeper than the paycheck. I asked what would actually motivate me at a fundamental level. The

From Employee to Self Employed I once tripled my productivity at a Fortune 500 company and got put on probation for it. Here is why “Model Employees” are often the biggest friction in a failing system—and how I chose the long walk in the snow instead to make the critical decision who I wanted to be and how I was going to accomplish it.When I was a young man, I worked as a computer operator