Why we opted out
Six years ago I was the chief operating officer of a $500 million company. Sixty-hour weeks, meetings I did not care about, dinners that ran too late. At forty I felt worse than my dad did at seventy. Nothing mainstream medicine offered was helping.
So we started removing things. Soda. Then the television. Then the sunscreen. Then the over-the-counter drugs. Then the subscriptions, the celebrity follows, the perfume, the car, and eventually the job.
Six years later we raise chickens and a small herd of cows. We homeschool. We drink raw milk. I stopped wearing sunscreen. The kids walk barefoot. I feel better at forty-six than I did at thirty-two.
None of this was planned. It happened one decision at a time. What I'm doing on this channel is writing down every single decision, ranking them by difficulty, and telling you what we'd do differently.