why you might want to read this newsletter

spoiler alert: I wouldn't have made it very far in a sales-based career

If you’re reading this, that means you signed up to receive a weekly post from me. I wrote most of this post before telling anyone I was planning to write, and when I set up the Substack, it said I should try to get 10 subscribers in order to get a little box checked in the list of things I needed to do. As someone who likes checked boxes and yet not believing anyone would be all that interested in reading what I had to say, I added 10 of my closest friends, without their consent, to my subscriber list. Then I shared on social media that I was planning to begin writing. Imagine my surprise when dozens of people signed up on their own. At that point, I decided I’d remove the 10 people I added myself so as not to infringe on the relational equity I’ve built up with them over the years. (This allowed the box to remain checked, which was the most important thing.)

With that said, why would anyone want to read what I have to write? While talking with my mom over the summer on a long road tr…