About Cameron

Cameron Lawrence splits his time between Missoula, MT and Big Sky, MT. He is semi-retired and is pursuing the life of a full-time mountain bum. He typically spends  100+ days a year on skis at Big Sky Resort where he teaches skiing. The rest of the year he is exploring ideas, messing about on rivers, humiliating himself on the golf course and enjoying the incredible summers for which the Rocky Mountains are known.

His successful business career ranged from entrepreneur, most notably in the self storage industry and technology sectors, to a career as a tenured Full Professor and Department Chair. His academic career was spent at the University of Montana where, following his retirement, he was awarded Emeritus status by the Montana University System Board of Regents. In addition to his business and academic career he worked as a professional ski patroller, ranch hand, and, less interestingly, served on corporate and non-profit boards.  During his wildly misspent youth he spent six years jumping out of airplanes into forest fires with the the USFS and BLM smokejumper programs. It was here that he met some of the world’s wildest and most interesting characters with whom he remains close. Looking back, life has worked out surprisingly well and no one is more surprised than him. 

His current intellectual interests center around examining social and economic cycles. He finds the work of Ray Dalio, Neil Howe, Russel Napier and Christopher Lasch to be of particular interest. He finds the return to an emphasis on political economy both necessary and fascinating. However, an in depth understanding of economic and social cycles, coupled with  knowledge of the diffusion of technological innovations, does not offer any meaningful insight into the pursuit of the well lived life. For this he is drawn to the work of Joseph Campbell, Matthew Crawford, James Hollis, Ryan Holiday and Shane Parrish.