I have been doing a lot of thinking. And been very tired, mostly. On one of my trips to Philadelphia, my father remarked that I might want to start my own business; and that got me thinking. And thinking. He said, “Oh, but you’re not ready yet, right?” And I answered, instead of my usual that I wasn’t, that, “No, I have some ideas.” For after 5 years of research, and filling up 2 ½ very thick notebooks with wild scribblings, I am actually at a point where I can build some physical thing (in the electronic sense, that is, or rather, you know — code). Before this, I was thinking about the promise I made to the Higher that I would give away all my best ideas, that I would make everything open source. And then, when I was dating that girl, thought about how I was going to support a family, and that maybe trying to make money from my ideas was not such a bad idea, but this thinking now, I may have found a compromise.
It’s going to be an open source company, but I’ll make some commercial concessions, like a commercial version with more bells and whistles, or support contracts. Other companies have done this before, though of course, not that many have been successful. But you know, it’s like that with almost every new venture, I would guess. Anyway, this would be a way to do what I have been doing for free for (once again) 5 years, and basically not have to work another day in my life — metaphorically, you know, since I’d be doing what I am inspired to anyway. I never could have predicted that I’d go in this direction, that I would make things happen this way, and let things happen to me this way, too: to make something truly new, as I have always wanted to do, and if all goes as well as I think they may… quietly to change the world.
