Tomorrow morning my daughter Marina returns from a three-week backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the same area I backpacked a few years ago. I miss her! My heart is with her up in those mountains, and my mind has been on the memory of my own time there.

In October of 2002, our client overpaid us $315K. It came at a crazy moment. We had been working for this client for a year, and we were growing quickly. When we started the project, in our glorious naivete, we asked to be paid in advance for our work, and our lovely client said, “Sure.”

That arrangement worked great, right up until we had grown as a vendor to a size where procurement started to pay attention.

Several of you asked to hear more about “Más Pelotas Que Nadie,” which I mentioned in my newsletter last week. So here it is, a tale of tenacity and T-shirts, with evergreen business and life lessons.