Funded R&D: A 90-Day Plan to Own Your Expertise (opens in new tab)

Employment pays you once for your expertise, in exchange for time. Ownership pays you repeatedly, in exchange for structure. That’s the whole game. Everything below is just how you move from the first sentence to the second without quitting your job, betting your mortgage, or pretending to be an influencer. Your job is the R&D budget Every problem you solve at work, every system you fix, every messy thing you navigate — that’s research. You are being paid to build expertise. The mistake is th...