The Price Of Every Shortcut: How A Small Lie Nearly Cost Me Who I Was

The ones who did usually backed down once I started talking fast enough.

I told myself I wasn’t stealing. I was running a business. Everyone does markups. That’s just how the world works.

Right?

Fast forward a few years, and I’d moved out, gotten a small shop downtown, hired a part-timer named Denny. Nice kid. Quiet. Studying IT at the local college.continue reading …