When I first started writing about my ideas, I published a number of guest articles for other blogs. A friend was kind enough to host one on his personal finance site. I got a lot of good feedback. I also got a fair amount of critical feedback. One of the comments, reproduced below, was especially insightful:

I sent that comment out to my family and a few friends. We laughed about it, and someone suggested I print and frame it in my office.

As bizarre as it was, the more I thought about it, the more we realized that “dog food man,” as my friends called him, was partially right. I hope my diet will be a bit better than what he suggested, and I hope I get my own room in the indigent house, but I won’t really be surprised if I’m comforted by my memories.