Floating where life takes me - and maybe sticking an oar in, once in a while.
It’s like the worst vacation spot in the world, but the people make it so much better. The nurses, even some doctors are honestly good people, focused on making people’s lives better. They have somehow learned to accept some of what they see day to day, and carry the emotional load, loaded upon them.
Had a very positive meeting with a client, six years to the day from the 'car thing' - when I failed to cross the street. I'm thinking there's some Karma payback! It's all going great! Foreshadowing by the unsaid...
Having an interesting time, people watching, the last while. The person I'm best at watching is me, because I have some sense of what drives me, while with other people, I have to guess. Right now I get to watch my head in a period of uncertainty. It was writing about depression that started me off on this whole typing thing, so I thought I'd revisit it.
May 11th 2017
Have a name, have a bank account, wow, that thing drops fast! I figure it's false savings to work on less than high end computers, big screens, mechanical keyboards and programmable mice. My time in corporatia taught me that, at the least. Good thing I don't have many employees yet on the start-up cost side! If I'm going to end up as a bankrupt wastrel, it won't be because of poor equipment.
April 26th, 2017
What a pain in the ass that is. What you name a company turns out to be even harder than naming a child, as you can call the child the same thing someone else has, without triggering talks with trademark attorneys.
April 10, 2017
Because it never rains when it can pour, my new life is looking like it might need scuba gear. I stay in the same job for 24 years, granted I spent time in a bunch of countries over that time, but still – same job. Now I’m starting a new consultancy, I might have someone to make this whimsy forge 3D printing thing an actual business, and I’m looking for a publisher.
March 20, 2017
My temporary retirement is coming to a close. And I’ve been pretty quiet here, cus retirement. Now I’m beginning to narrow down options and trying to keep feeding myself, so am thinking about work again. I’m starting to approach old clients and seeing if they’ll give me money for pushing truths out of my head and into electrons.
Feb 19, 2017
I’ve put together a number of frames, ways of thinking about cognition and human interaction in my unending (and unending-able) quest to understand people. People is weird, so it’s hard work, and is only ever sort of right.
January 30, 2017
I'm going to plunge right in where fools fear to tread, and present where my brain is going via international politics, and the rise of authoritarian, racially combative politics. It's new strength seems to be mostly a Western cultural phenomena (including Turkey in the West). It has old strength in lots of other places, but the growth of angry politics where it hasn't been standard fare - at least not to this degree - for generations is what I'm thinking about.
January 27th 2017
Man life is weird, serendipity is calling for attention in too many places for me to chase all of it, so I'm having to parse opportunity in a city where opportunity is out of fashion. I'm keep thinking some of those opportunities are going to dry up, making it easier to pick what I'll chase. I may even be able to pass some of them on to others.
January 12 2017
And what has begun?? There have been a few editorials I've read this year that were all - "2016 was a horrible year, good riddance...2017 will be worse" - which is a bit negative really. That led to me thinking about human "optimism bias"which these articles were clearly not engaged in.
This, rather obviously for those who've read the previous stuff, is where I break from a long, 20+ year attachment to Komex/WorleyParsons/Advisian and breakout into the unknown.
How my mental health deals with this separation from a stable perch and the separation from what has been my professional family for, well, ever, will be studied in the upcoming additions of the blog. Who knows what cliffhangers and outbursts await as I try to figure out what happens next!
Will he start a company of his own and realize that his previous observations were not nearly as brilliant as he thought from his new context? Will he join some other firm and note that he had it too well at the previous joint and has screwed up his life? Will he go on to a new career farming kumquats in a urban garden planted on his condo balcony? Who knows - stay tune to the following installments on Skelly's Forge - where he pounds his life into alloys of existence...or whatev...
No idea where this next chunk of time will lead, but I hope it won't be boring!
