Late nights, dilettantes, the group, etc
I really want to clear my brain and go to sleep, but instead I keep looping through the events of the past few days, and periodically checking the clock to see just how little sleep I’m actually getting. This does happen to me from time to time, especially when I slip off my wagon of caffeine-freeness and indulge in the mid-afternoon coffee. Like I did today. Well I figure the less I sleep tonight, the more tired (and hence less stressed) I’ll be tomorrow. Yup, tomorrow night I’m going to sleep just fine. But in the meantime tomorrow is my busiest day of the week, with two demos, a meeting, and an early morning (8:30!) Sloan class I’m trying to audit. Let me just stick pins in some of these thoughts…
Being a dilettante. With the web, there is so much to know, but we don’t actually have to know very much of it. We just have to know how to find it. This has been said before, but I don’t remember exactly who said it…
Mentoring. Relevant to the last point on dilettantes, I’m only now beginning to understand that I will never find that single mentor to teach me design, programming, electronics, woodworking, surfing, gardening, and cooking. Oh, and wheel building, finance and investing, and welding. I’m going to have to find lots of mentors. So I have to be my own meta-mentor.
Luis’s definition of the three eras of our group - VLW, ACG, then PLW - as direct consequences of a single element of the almost messianic McLuhan vision. The VLW were the explorers of the digital medium, remapping tools and techniques to work in new ways within the digital space. ACG played with the medium to create messages that were previously not possible. And now the PLW is shedding the VLW and ACG boosters, pulling out of the gravitational field of the medium/message dichotomy, into a future in which people’s lives are so tightly woven into the media as to be indistinguishable from it.
promiserver.org. That’s the old placeholder still, but note that I actually bought the domain. Oh, and the .com too. It just seems like a good name. The actual code is really coming along too. My goal is to have something up and usable online by the end of the month. It’s very important that I beat all the other procedural judicial systems to the market. Competition in this space is fierce.
Speaking of domains and tlds, somewhat related is Niue. They have a most excellent tld, free community internet, paradisical, and sovereign. Seem like it would be a place worth visiting, especially with Jenn.
iTunes plugin. Anita and I have decided this would be a nice side project. I see the SDK for the visualizer plugins, but how did iLike make theirs? I’m thinking they’re using an unpublished API. Some more investigation is in order.
Perhaps I’ll reread this post tomorrow, quickly realize I was sick with sleep deprivation, and promptly take it down. But it is, I think, perfectly blog-like, perhaps more so than anything I’ve previously written, so I may have no choice but to leave it up.
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