Reaching Acceptance
This past week marked a big milestone for me. I’ve written a lot about all the amazing and terrible things that happened last year, and talking and thinking about each of them as their anniversaries pass has triggered conflicting emotions. But last week in particular was the one-year anniversary of leaving my job, which was […]
How Tragedy Taught Me to Redefine My Limits – A Year in Review (Part 3)
Finally. This is the long-delayed third part of a 3-part post about my experiences leaving my job, starting a business, and taking control of my life last year. I really recommend reading part 1 and part 2 first. This post is also a lot longer than I meant it to be, because I have so much I […]
How My Illness Forced Me to Start a Business – A Year in Review (Part 2)
This is the second of a 3-part post summarizing my experiences dealing with illness and starting a business in the past year. I recommend reading part 1 first, where I talked about taking control of my life and leaving my job. In this part, I’ll talk about the next steps I took after quitting, and how I fell into starting a business. I […]
How My Illness Forced Me to Leave My Job and Take Control of My Life – A Year in Review (Part 1)
I’ve been working on a couple of related posts around these topics for a while now, and delays and timing have led me to realize they’d actually make a good end-of-year summary of what was an amazingly turbulent time in my life, with loss, illness, and anxiety, all of which led to some personal and […]
A sense of neurons connecting
There have been a lot of interesting developments lately in the area of devices and web APIs that are clearly only early steps, but have struck me as collectively representing building blocks towards the digital nervous system concept I presented in my (stammering) talk at Ignite Hampton Roads a few months ago. My basic premise […]
A voice passes
I was really hit harder today by Roger Ebert’s passing than any celebrity or public figure that I can remember. He was an amazing writer, communicator, and even artist who was adept at sharing his passion for the movies that I care so much about, and later for how he embraced technologies to give himself […]
Dysautonomia and Ignite
Well, that was about as long a gap after my first post as could be expected. I guess I should probably try to finish the dozen-or-so draft posts I’ve been working on. In the meantime, I figured my talk at Ignite Hampton Roads tonight would be a good opportunity to start posting more about my […]
On Writing
I hear this blogging thing is going to be big… So my goal here is create an outlet for more focused writing than what I put into my clever tweets, long-winded forum posts, deep private messages to friends, Facebook statuses, work emails, and other dry software documentation. I’m really hoping to use this as a […]