Inventing Millions
Humor essays about medicine, technology, and personal business failures.
About
My name is TR Hull. I’m a retired physician with a love of writing.
A friend who also writes once told me that posting your writing online is kind of like standing in traffic and pulling your pants down to see what passersby think. I have not tried this, but I knew someone who did stand in the road with his pants down. But he had some personal issues. I don’t know if the guy with his pants down was a writer too, or just someone with a love of the performing arts. He didn’t seem to mind getting negative comments from the drivers whizzing by.
Most of us lack that level of artistic dedication. Writing is hard, and letting other people see that writing is even harder. Not as hard as practicing medicine, in my opinion. Medicine is really hard, unless you’re a dermatologist or something. Still, writing is difficult to do well.
Along with my writing, I’ve also had way too much experience with inventing. I invented a bunch of fascinating things that the buying public had no use for. It turns out inventing is really hard too. I failed at several business ventures based on my inventions too. One of the business failures I suffered through involved feeding Hot Mexican Peanuts to seagulls. Really.
But I also have essays about new technology. Why? Well, technology is changing the world pretty fast, and I want to know how these changes will affect my family. But mostly I want to know how our changing world will affect my Social Security. So I pay attention.
The essays I write are supposed to be informative and funny. If they aren’t, at least they’re short and easy to read. I hope you read them, and maybe even comment. And maybe you’ll subscribe to my newsletter. I will post a new essay once or twice a week until I run out of ideas or I receive a petition asking me to stop. And I promise not to post any pictures of me with my pants down.