It has been almost two months to the day since my last post. It is a hiatus I hope not to repeat, but there is good reason.
I have been shifting gears.
For almost a year I have been planning and starting a new business. As of the beginning of June, virtually all of the business cases, proof-of-concept, market analysis, and predictors have been completed. This has caused me to turn to many of the detailed issues involved in actually launching our new product, and specifically many technical ones. So, I have been immersed in this for some time, and my posts from now on may reflect a totally different track than prior ones.
One of the most respected people in Computer Science is Donald Knuth. On his personal site, he has an amusing observation about email and how it relates to him:
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.
I have always liked this. I often shift from a very social "business mode" into a very anti-social "engineering mode". Mastering such shifts is hard, and if anybody has any advice I'd love to hear it. But, it causes me to also shift from wanting to "be on top of things" to needing to "be on the bottom of things".
But, I have missed blogging. It's a good discipline. And, regardless of the value of these posts, I'll try to get things going again.
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