Librarian of Fortune

Erin Callan, the former CFO of Lehman Brothers, writes in the New York Times of March 10 about her choices to devote all her energy to her job. 

I didn't start out with the goal of devoting all mof myself to my job. It crept in over time. [...] I did not know how to value who I was versus what I did. What I did was who I was. [...] Even at the best times in my career, I was never deluded into thinking I had achieved any sort of rational allocation between my life at work and my life outside.

I find it heartbreaking to read these kinds of regrets. One of the best reasons I have for being an info-entrepreneur is that I can balance all the parts of my life. Maybe not perfectly, but I know that I am in control of what choices I make, and that balance is possible.

Some additional thoughts on the death of handwriting, triggered by Ellen Naylor's comment in my earlier post.

I was mapping out a book chapter yesterday (The Reluctant Entrepreneur - watch for it later this year!), and found that the only way to do it was to use 3x5 cards spread out on my work table. I wonder if this is an artifact of being born pre-digital... another example of how we who grew up without the web will
always think and speak with an accent that digital natives don't have.