Anonymous interviews with professionals where I try to get a functional understanding of how their industry works. If they work in airplane design then I want to learn at a practical & realistic level what actions to take to get a plan designed & built. If they started a restaurant, then I want to know how to make a restaurant. Whose boots to lick, what doesn’t really matter, what really bites you in the ass. These are not success stories. There is no advice here. This is an honest look at how our economy functions.