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Pause To Reflect
Lately it's seemed like a good time to take a moment and reflect on what project I want to do next. It was about a year ago that I created the picobuzz site. I was generally using that site as a way to get experience with "Web 2.0" apps and technology such as Django. I was happy that I launched it, but the expansion ideas I had didn't pan out and I have taken it as far as I want.
A couple of other things are causing me to stop and reflect:
- I read Tim Ferriss' book: The 4-Hour Work Week, which I highly recommend to anyone. I read it when it first came out, so this is not a new thing, but the result is that since then I have been questioning my life decisions a lot more. This is generally a good thing, but has a side-effect that it occasionally results in bouts of metaphysical waffling.
- More recent and significant: the financial market meltdown. The project I had been working on recently involved extending my picobuzz engine to aggregate financial buzz from sources like Twitter and create sentiment indicators. Thanks to the market meltdown(s), I lost not only my interest in the project but also what working capital i had. And it's not really challenging to read the market sentiment these days. I will probably continue to tinker with this in the background (because the markets will come back), but I don't think there is not much to do at the moment.
So with good reason (as well as my entrepreneurial ADD tendencies) I am looking to turn my attention to other ideas and interests. I am keeping my eye on ubiquitous computing developments but I feel that will be a slow development process. Also I think the interesting developments will tend to involve hardware which is harder to do as a parttime project.
Hence, I will likely stick with Web apps--something involved with meaningful content and social value. Check back for further developments.
rk
