Bill
Bill Magill is a writer, rambler, and career nomad living well in Aix-en-Provence, France. His blog - Postcards From a Runaway - is a meeting place and resource center for fellow travelers also unsettled about life and career, and questioning what really matters, simple as that. It is also an anchor point for the Passion Plan Alliance, a mutual support group for readers embarking on their personal Missions. Feel free to share Postcards with friends and family who never stop asking the right questions.
Bill has worked in venture capital, investment banking, consulting, and academia. He has also been paid to wash dishes, tend bar, pump gas, play loud music, and blow up cool stuff with lasers. All readers passing through Provence are invited to seek Bill out for a drink and exchange of ideas.
Bill has worked in venture capital, investment banking, consulting, and academia. He has also been paid to wash dishes, tend bar, pump gas, play loud music, and blow up cool stuff with lasers. All readers passing through Provence are invited to seek Bill out for a drink and exchange of ideas.
Hometown: Aix-en-Provence, France
Occupation: professor, writer, musician
Posts
The Creative Flame: Essential for Midlife Change
Creativity is the residue of time wasted. – Albert Einstein He was sick of writing music, sick of playing music, sick of the whole music scene with the worshiping fans and hangers-on, sick of being the wise oracle and rambling troubadour of a generation, sick of everything and everyone associated...
Of Wealth and Worth
Music suggestion: (Out on the road to) Shambala, Three Dog Night Drink suggestion: Sam Adams Utopias beer Wealth is what we reserve for ourselves, worth is what we offer to the world. What are you worth? This question typically evokes a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation involving the sum of ...
Passion plans? Yes, ...and you?
This postcard was published originally on February 2, 2011, at Music suggestion: It's My Life, The Animals Drink suggestion: Pastis Henri Bardouin Do you ever dream of doing something radically different? Are there nagging suspicions that your life/career trajectory is on a path of its own, with...
Goals
Bill has not shared any goals.