Exciting developments...

It's been nearly two months since my last post and I wanted to mention this because it was completely unintentional on my part. I have in short been extremely busy and distracted over the last few months as several very interesting and exciting developments have occurred in my life and required much of my time.



The first thing is that I handed in my resignation to my employer a couple of months ago, and today was my last day as an employee of the company where I have worked for the past 9¹/₂ years. Looking back, I've achieved a great deal in that time, and I have the honour and the satisfaction of knowing that the software I have written is and will continue to have a real impact on the lives of the many thousands of people worldwide who suffer from a hearing loss for many years to come. I spent a couple of years procrastinating about when it should be time for me to leave, and I cam to a decision a few months ago that it was long past time that I did.  While it is in some ways sad to leave, I am very excited about the future to come. Ending my employment meant that I had to do a lot of work finishing up projects with a few loose ends, and handing over all of the knowledge and systems that I have needed to manage over the years I have been with the company.

While all of this has been going on, I've noticed something interesting occurring. I've always been something of an ideas person.  I get these interesting and sometimes crazy ideas for products, tools, processes, business ideas and so on. The trouble is, that most of the time I am so busy working daily and spending time with family, so those ideas kind of disappear after a time, and the really good ideas that I think might have a chance at success have come to me less often as the years have passed. The amazing thing is that over the last 3 months, I have cataloged nearly 20 good and marketable ideas which I believe I have a good chance at developing if I am able to find the time and funding to finance them. It's as if the place I had been working at was somehow holding my creative side back, and that the process of letting the company go has been allowing my creative faculties to restore themselves.  I've felt as if a great weight has been lifted, and like a blindfold has been removed from my eyes allowing me to see the world differently, and see everyday problems which I am able to derive innovative solutions for.

My first post employment project has been listed on the Pozible website as a plugin for web browsers that I believe will at the very least alter the worlds view about how to locate and manage information resources on the internet.

I'm hoping to find people interested in the idea and willing to contribute to the project in some way.  I'm very excited about this, and hoping others will feel the same way, which is why I've turned to crowd-sourcing the funding for the project. Hopefully this will help me to keep the lights on while I look for my next job, and will keep me busy over the next few months.

So all of this has sadly left me more recently with little time to update this blog.  That will change now that I can concentrate my efforts on only a handful of tasks in the coming months.  I'll be posting interesting things that I come across, as well as project updates here.  I'm also looking forward to the social/psychological aspects to this whole crowd-sourcing concept, and I may from time to time post about these experiences either here, or on a new blog if I feel the effort is warranted.

In the meantime, a couple of days of rest is in order before I start to plan in earnest for this new and exciting project that I am working on.