Obviously, there's much to be learned from Peter Norton's approach. But we were particularly drawn to three more general ideas:
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While books are written about the anguish of growth, Peter Norton managed the process with scarcely a hitch. Peter says the growth process went smoothly for three reasons:
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In 1982 when he decided to go into business for himself, Peter Norton had no debts, no family, and about $30,000 in savings. From his point of view, it took no particular courage to risk that $30,000 on an invention: he was responsible only to himself, and would have had no real trouble getting another programming job.
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But a programmer's life, solitary as it was, was not isolated enough for Peter, with the computer industry booming, most of his friends were striking out on their own, either as freelance programmers or as consultants.
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Here's an important point: Even before he was self-employed, Peter allowed himself plenty of time to savor his own achievements. He'd reread his own work for the pure pleasure of it: whenever he came upon a particularly elegant bit, he felt a sensation akin to "taking the creamy top frosting off the cake."
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His first summer after college, Peter Norton took a job with a firm that prepared statistical data for insurance companies. In those years the work was done on adding machines--until one day his supervisor took him to a room filled with whirring electronic gear, pointed to it, and said: "Kid, we bought a computer and we don't know how to use it. There's the manual; see if you can figure it out."
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