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The top ten changes in my business thinking.

Rob May reflects on 'what was and what is'.

I am sitting in a coffee shop this morning breathing a sigh of relief. After almost five years of blogging, I am done. This past year, my heart just hasn't been into it, and I think that is reflected in the lackluster posting compared to previous years. I had a contract (at Businesspundit) to fulfill, and it ends today.

Five years ago I was 26 years old and working as a digital design engineer in Florida. Now 31, I'm living in Louisville, KY, and have my first child on the way any day now. My work is probably best described as building a web platform for local media companies under the assumption that the web is going more local, and consulting part-time to pay the bills.

Sometimes when I look back on the past five years, I am amazed at how much I've been through, and how much of it has been public—published on my weblog. The grind of writing every day has become boring, and I just want the chance to do more research and write less often, but with better insight and supporting evidence.

Five years ago, my views on business were very very different than they are today. Here I examine the top ten things about business that I view differently than I did five years ago. I am not saying these are gospel, or even that they are correct.

I think absolutism is a sign of closed mindedness and that any intelligent person should always be adjusting their views slightly in light of new evidence and changing times. Five years from now, I will probably read this and think that I was wrong about some of these. Nonetheless, this is where my mind stands today.

10 Luck matters. Five years ago, I would have said success was mostly skill and effort, but in the past five years I have met countless bright hard working entrepreneurs who didn't get the right break.

I have also met a few no-talent hacks who got lucky. In general, I think a small percentage of highly successful people are just lucky and not talented. Most are both talented and lucky, and a few were just so super talented they didn't need luck.

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