Why Being 'Respectable' Is Overrated
Category: FIFTY
Respectability takes many forms. When you grow up a certain way, it's expected that you'll travel a certain path: serve on boards, go to cocktail parties, attend important conferences, maybe even give a TED talk if you really have made it (after all, what could possibly be more important?) I grew up on that path, but deviated from it, first because of circumstances, then by choice.
By Joe Seldner, ContributorJournalist/Producer, 2015-04-23