Hi, I'm dave, and I've never worked a day in my life with love--only distaste, and I've been working for over 40 years. For so long I felt that there must be something wrong with me because I was unable to derive enjoyment or pleasure from working--aside from huffing nitrous from the whip cream canisters when I worked at a frozen yogurt shop while in high school. I thought maybe, one day, I'll find the right job, and I'll love working as well. Then I'll become a normal, well-adjusted, productive member of society. The fact that I've built this crappy website is evidence that that hasn't happened.

So, who is dave? dave is no one special. dave is the everyman and everywoman who refuses to feel like they're less because they don't want to work more. dave is everyone who rejects the propaganda being relentlessly spread by the toxic, work-obsessed culture we now live in. dave has had enough of the preaching from the tech-bros, the influencers, and the self-help gurus telling us that if we're not waking up at 4:30 every morning, leveling up and getting our "grind" on, then we're lazy, unambitious, morally deficient good for nothings.  

dave is someone who has accepted a deeper truth: that real joy is found in being, not in endless doing--and he feels no guilt or shame for saying so. Despite appearances, dave is someone possessed of a kind of ambition almost unfathomable in today’s world. Not the sanctioned ambition of a society that bows before the altar of work and consumption, but a radical ambition to step away from that aspect of society and fully embrace a quieter, less stressful approach to living. dave’s ambition is not about more: not working more hours, not acquiring more things, not gathering more titles, not gaining more prestige. dave’s ambition is about enough. Having enough time to enjoy and nurture friendships, having enough freedom to enjoy the little pleasures and treasures that frequently pass unnoticed, and having enough money to live without fear. Ultimately, it’s about having enough and being enough to enjoy a life lived simply. That's dave. That's me. That might also be you. If it is, then I'm pleased to meet you.