Back before computers. Yea, I know that sounds ridiculous. If it helps, picture Seth Meyers in one of his “In my day” sketches. Got it? Anyway, “Back before computers” when cars had carburetors, VHS tapes were in “Beta” and King Ferdinand staked Columbus to a road trip; the early signs of my entrepreneurship were awakening. One day I had an idea for organizing all my papers. Correspondence, bills, calendar, parking tickets, photos, recipes and doodles. I had invented a giant monitor.
On my desk I had a paper clip. I remembered as a kid we would string them together to make chains. These chains had no particular purpose other than to make it hard to get a paper clip when you needed one. I grabbed a thumb tack and tacked my string of paperclips to the wall and inserted a doc. Another paper clip – another row of documents, then another and another until my wall was neatly organized with the detritus of my life.
With a pen and rub-on letters I began to design my first advertisement.
I was going to make it big. I invented the Wall-File a new technology that would change everything. One simple ad in the back of Popular Mechanic.
Then, I realized my conscience wouldn’t allow me to sell 40 paperclips and a thumbtack for $2.95 – That and my “Check” was going the wrong direction.
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