The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

The second rule of career planning: Instead of planning your career, focus on developing skills and pursuing opportunities.67

Moore’s Law: On The Dangers of Linear thinking in an Exponential World In a nonchalant article published in 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore described a trend he’d observed happening within Intel. Computer power was doubling every eighteen to twenty-four months.

The ability individuals have right now to deliberately design their lives and realities is greater than at any time in history.

“I don’t think of work as work or play as play. It’s all just living.” Richard Branson

Stated in a formula, the Fast Lane is: Wealth = Net Profit + Asset Value Those terms are defined: Net Profit = (Units Sold) × (Unit Profit) Asset Value = (Net Profit) × (Industry Multiplier)

By harnessing freedom and meaning earlier in our careers and putting it into our work, we can now live freer, more meaningful lives that help others, and get rich doing it.

One common mistake early entrepreneurs make is that they think they need a business idea. That’s rarely the case: you don’t need a business idea—you need relationships. As you acquire relationships and entrepreneurial experience, ideas will become a bigger problem, but not in the way you think.

Happiness, he explains, isn’t just something that happens. We can’t buy it with money or command it to happen no matter how much power we have. It doesn’t depend on outside events, but our interpretation of them. Happiness is a condition which can be prepared for and cultivated. It’s that ability to control our own inner experience that will determ

Great work—the kind of work that will create wealth in our lives and the lives of others is not the product of obligation—is the product of freedom. Freedom gives us a longer lever, a better leverage point.