Billions With Zero Knowledge

I have been on vacation for a week in Mexico with my girlfriend Kelly and am posting this using a small internet cafe, and a slow dial-up connection.

Fact is I’m loving the time away from the office, for no other reason then I use my vacations as reading weeks and I’ve been reading two books at day and am full of insights. (And a little color for my Casper-like Canadian winter skin suit I’ve been wearing).

Before I left Montreal, I did an interview with Kristina Tomaz-Young from Smart Initiatives where she wrote the following,

You would think that this would be enough and he would be soaking in the rays in Tahiti with his feet up. But nope, not Austin! Retirement is far away. He’s relentlessly on the go, advising and investing in start-ups and building yet another game-changing company.

The full interview is available here

March and April were really busy but great months for Akoha as we raised some more angel money and rounded out most of our core development team with the hiring of 5 additional people.

During the back to back days of work that is part of the heavy lifting required while creating companies it’s hard often for me to relax. I’m in my groove working longs days and I actually have to force myself to take a break sometimes. Thankfully my partner Kelly knows a lot of the warning signs when I’ve been pushing too much and usually steps in, makes plans for my vacation and tells me when I’m leaving the office and where we are going.

Only once I’ve left the office that I realize how much I needed to take a small break.

So I’ll be back next week, catching up on email and starting on some blogging again (which became sparse when we were trying to hire 5 people due to the incredible amount of time hiring good people takes).

In the meantime, here is a great quote that I started my reading week with from Ester Buchholz.

Life’s creative solutions require alone time. Solitude is required for the unconscious to process and unravel problems.

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.

On Fri 27 Apr 2007.