New York Sun
If you don't try it you'll never know. And if you fail you pick yourself up and try again.
I try to live by these words having tried plenty of stuff from writing (meh, you be the judge) and sculpting to driving a taxi and a forklift to 3D scanning and rapid prototyping to building a clothing/ shoe store and a bar. And I've just scratched the surface.
I've run businesses in three countries, and though I was successful in putting most of those businesses together to my own satisfaction, only one of them is still operating- and I'm not operating it. All of them failed for one reason or another. I'm looking for my next enterprise, but I'm also buying weekly lottery tickets. This is the state of my frustration.
Though my own writing is short of Pulitzer quality I do enjoy reading the good stuff, and some of the better stuff just went away. Yesterday, on September 30, the New York Sun ceased publication. We are the poorer for it and we won't see its like again anytime soon. It was rather exciting watching them launch and make a go of it, and go they did.
It is small salve that I find myself in good company in failure, but I'll take it.
