My Sister Woke Me Up at 5 A.M. Demanding Breakfast, but What She Did Next Made Me Teach Her a Lesson

Four bedrooms. Cedar shingles gone silver from the salt. A wraparound porch. A kitchen with a long window over the sink where you can watch the pelicans skim the waves in the morning.

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I bought it outright two years ago.

After I sold my share of a software company I’d spent twelve exhausting years building.

The company was called Tidewater Systems. Logistics software for regional shipping companies. My college roommate and I started it in a one-bedroom apartment in Durham in 2011. We wrote the first version on two used laptops. We ate ramen for three years. I slept four hours a night for most of my twenties.

By 2022, we had ninety employees and contracts with forty port authorities on the East Coast.

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When a company from Atlanta bought us out, my share came to a number I still have trouble saying out loud.

I didn’t buy a yacht. I didn’t buy a Lamborghini. I didn’t move to Manhattan.

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