Why a blog about Napoleon Hill?

Because he's generous, humane, cant-free, and just weird enough to make you feel you are dealing with another flawed soul and not an advertisement.
I was a mid-level manager in corporate America whose particular gifts were no longer needed when the company decided that building for the future was less important than impressing Wall St. with stringent cost cutting. (Sorry for the incipient rant, I will not get into the pros and cons of this here but will address it in another forum.).
Anyway, in the summer of 2009 I was out of a job and looking for another. I had become a manager 10 years ago, discovered I was good at it and enjoyed it. But when the manager gig ends and prospective employers start asking about your special skills... you realize your ability has become enabling other people rather than doing something yourself.
I pursued job searching fruitlessly for a couple of months until I realized I didn't like this way of doing things, it was enervating, demotivating, and made me feel tawdry. So I started looking for other ways to make enough money to support my family (wife and four children).
During this time I went through many negative feelings about myself - lack of skills, abundance of age (mid 40s), no longer relevant, etc and so on. I am sure the path is familiar to many. I read and looked into life coaches, self-development programs, re-training until I was pretty overwhelmed and none the happier.
Then I came across Napoleon's book "Think and Grow Rich". It is a cheesy title and if I hadn't been able to download a free copy I probably would not have read it. But I did and his down-to-earth approach to great ideas struck a chord in me that spurred me to revitalize, re-think and reorganize my search for money to support my family.
This is not a story, it is a work in progress. I am still in the middle of things. I have a plan and I am working it. But I have had so many thoughts about Napoleon and his book that I wanted to share them as some kind of payback for the help his book has been to me, (although whether he would see it as that is another question).