John Adams

I retired early from my career in technology sales.  The culture of corporate America was no longer working for me.  Specifically the idea that there is a moral space, where as long as you are not breaking the law, your only responsibility was to shareholder value and pursuit of profit.  Full acceptance of this leaves little space to connect with your values and principles.  As I dug deeper into the concepts of Doughnut Economics the decision to retire from my professional job was a no-brainer.  It was a purposeful transition from years of accumulating, to focusing on how to thrive so that I could live the concepts.  This in turn has freed up my time and attention capacity to make sense of the current situation of the world, understand the underlying systems, and determine how I can contribute to help make positive change.  I came to DEAL to find guidance on how to take action.