Seconding this. Also his twitter accounts are pretty interesting: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/twitter_page/ http://www.johndcook.com/blog/twitter_page/ He's

Seconding this. Also his twitter accounts are pretty interesting: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/twitter_page/ http://www.johndcook.com/blog/twitter_page/ He's written some posts specifically on how he transitioned into consulting; I can't find them right now but they're worth poking around for.