“Save a lot of money and don’t put yourself in a situation where you absolutely must succeed in order to keep paying your bills” with Steve Silberberg

Steve Silberberg is the founder and owner of Fitpacking Weight Loss Backpacking Adventures: https://fitpacking.com. He graduated from M.I.T. in 1984 with both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Steve was a software contractor for over 20 years serving dozens of notable clients including DuPont, Polaroid, Tektronix, Acadian Asset Management, Ameriprise, Talbots, Data I/O, and companies with names even more obscure than Data I/O.

Steve’s Air Sickness Bag collection is the largest in the lower 48 and 10th largest in the world. Steve generally avoids people and prefers to spend his time backpacking in the wilderness. (But he likes writing about himself in the 3rd person like a self-important putz).

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