You know how sometimes you forget to do something, and then you forget that you forgot, and then you feel bad that you forgot and it just seems awkward…
Well, I wrote this just before Thanksgiving. Since it’s still the holiday season, it’s still worth saying:
- I want to thank Pamela Slim, and J Timothy King for helping inspire me to try something new
- I want to thank Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok from Marginal Revolution for providing the economic justification to try something new
- I want to thank all the good people at the Sunlight Foundation for helping introduce me to non-profits, the inner workings of democracy and most of all, their interesting points of view.
- I want to thank my wife and kids for putting up with selling the house and moving and all the strange new things that come along with it.
- I want to thank all my wife’s friends for being incredibly helpful and supportive when she was trying to get the house ready.
John:
I want to thank you for your thanks! It gives me so much inspiration and energy to see people like you stepping out and making something new and exciting happen.
Although you may not realize it, just by moving forward with your plans, you have given countless others permission to do the same, including your kids if they so choose.
Have a great new year! I sincerely thank you for frequenting my blog.
All the best,
-Pam
Comment by Pamela Slim — December 6, 2007 @ 4:32 pm
Thanks for visiting mine, Pam
Have a great holiday season.
John
Comment by jb — December 6, 2007 @ 4:37 pm
Hi, John. I’m oh so honored to be mentioned in the same sentence as Pam Slim and her Escape from Cubicle Nation blog (which helped inspire me to make my big break).
I’m not sure what I said to inspire you, but I wish you the best in your new position with the Sunlight Foundation. Going through with a change like this can be invigorating and just a little scary. I’m glad you have a family who is as supportive of you as my family has been for me. That’s terribly important.
Take care,
-TimK
Comment by Tim King — December 7, 2007 @ 8:31 am