For anyone who happens upon this little blog of mine, please check out my brother’s blog… I stole the site design from him (though I plan to take it in other directions when the time allows) and he has some interesting pics on his page. I guess I’m gonna have to buy me a domain at some point…
A few of you may or may not know I’m considering taking the plunge and starting my own business… The theory goes, I can try my own thing for a year ot two and either I’ll make lots of bank and sell it off to a big corporation, or I’ll at the very least learn some valuable lessons that I can turn around and use to market myself to future employers… this is something I have to do now, while I have less to lose and don’t have a family and kids to worry about. My brother, John, and my friend, Glen, are slated to help me in this endeavor… may god have mercy on their souls… thankfully, I’ll prolly wait until grad-school to pick up the pace, that way I have some more direction.
Speaking of business, the main problem I have is deciding what to do. Creating an idea is hard work, and I’m thinking I just need to take an existing idea and do it better. It comes down to invention v. innovation… Apple and Google didn’t come out with new products, they took something that was already available and made it better, and now look at them (and the one time Apple did try to invent, they came out with the Newton, which was done better by someone else… ;). Problem is… what shall I innovate? My interests lie in robotics, OS design or GUI design, biotech, rapid prototyping, and a few other things… I’m giving myself too many options right now, I need some direction…
I need a camera, specifically a Nikon D-70 so I too can catalog my adventures
-Tom “I should be doing work right now” Heaton