I get particularly fired up about the lack of focus people have on the computer. That’s the problem I want to solve. It’s like, entrepenuers and coders are so busy creating new crap (some of it quite wonderful) to fling at people, but there’s no thought given to organizing it all in some sort of sane manner.

Now, I have several ideas in this field, and actively read about people’s complaints, and am trying to understand the economic environment well enough to not get eaten alive if I choose to go comercial. In the meantime, I make money by writing prototype software (which is like the coolest possible non- “core dream” job ever), and the occasional website (which frankly isn’t interesting at all but nothing “keeps it real” like getting down with PHP, CSS and JavaScript).

It wasn’t easy realizing this. I have a lot of interests, including physical device design, music, and fiction writing. But nothing inspires me as much as the intersection between technology and psychology, and no problem lights me up as much as that of digital personal organization. Google has endeavored to “organize the world’s information” – who’s mission is it to help me organize my information?

My sense is that most people exist in a professionally reactive vague fog – they will simply do what needs doing until the pleasure/pain quotients get out of whack. Don’t get me wrong: this is a good thing. It’s good because it makes for an adaptable workforce (there’s probably some game-theory reason why this is the case). Can you imagine what would happen if 90% of farmers just stopped doing it because they didn’t like it anymore? These people work to live. The family is meaningful, work is something to get through.

My concern is that, perhaps, my dream will be more meaningful than family. But premature optimization is the root of all evil, as they say.