Beyond the three year mark

As my Class Viewer project quietly moved beyond the three year mark I started wondering more about how I see things now, especially going forward, versus what I thought might happen over three years ago when I was eagerly applying for a project at SourceForge. And I realized that my perspectives now were a lot about how I see the Internet itself differently.

And that picture is still changing like the Internet itself, where mostly I find myself doing a wait-and-see.

Other project ideas are lurking in my mind but most of them have to do with finding content, like one project idea I posted here a while back having to do with trying to figure out a way to get a good directory of web links where a computer manages, hiring and firing people to find links and judge them.

But I can't get beyond just initial thinking because part of me sees it as kind of a strange problem. Today there is so much information out there, but I find it so hard to find what I think is the really good stuff.

And I still don't quite know why. I have my ideas but until the situation makes sense to me, I'm not going to invest a lot of time and effort that might be wasted.

Looking back on the multi-year efforts that created the little app that is doing whatever it's doing as I'm not sure, I am more impressed than I was then with how much effort, time and single-minded purposefulness it takes.

I think I helped add to the good content that is out there and it's a nice feeling. But I feel more and more like it's so hard to rise above the thicket that you have to worry about that as much as coming up with a good idea.

The signal to noise ratio of the Internet is just so high. So much effort is not about having a good idea, but just about being seen.


James Harris

Destinations

It's not really winning if you don't get to where you want to go.

In praise of ideals

Losing your principles, now that can kill you. Losing a job, well that can save your life.