"Three months after high school graduation, and a toasty eight-hour drive south on the 5 freeway in the back seat of my stepdad’s small pickup, I arrived at my new home—a four-hundred-square- foot garage in Long Beach, California. For the foreseeable months, I would sustain myself on rice cakes and chili beans and an eight-dollar-an-hour income."
Prologue, The Work of Art: A No-Nonsense Field Guide for Creative Entrepreneurs
