He went from the Post to a Mississippi River tugboat, pushing coal barges for a power plant. He returned to journalism to cover the space shuttle Challenger disaster as a national reporter for the Washington Post. He went from the Post to Florida magazine, the Sunday magazine of the Orlando Sentinel, where he was a staff writer, managing editor, and editor. He left to freelance and ended up ghostwriting a book, The Real Heroes of Business and Not a CEO Among Them. He was assistant managing editor for features, business, and sports coverage.
Every car provides an opportunity to create an adventure.
But the plant' s real power lies in the lessons that it teaches about the future of work and about workplace democracy. The man who democratized stock trading talks about nirvana, sage investing, and his first bubble. The founder of Federal Express and the creator of overnight delivery is obsessed with time and the pursuit of speed. He learned everything he knows about leadership from the marines. And he gets choked up at the movies.