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Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.
After selling the business, and the Patrick Cox brand in 2007, I had a three-year non-compete, where I just spent a lot of time hanging all over the world on beaches and having fun.
I hadn't ever worked with an 'editor' until I was 26 - although that could be partly chalked up to the MFA vs. NYC thing, where I came up through institutions that encouraged writers to write privately for a long, long time and not sully themselves with concerns about audience or the business side of writing.