Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

Oh wait! I forgot the picture. Ok, now I’m ready: Happy Father’s Day!

Miss you! The weather is breathtaking and we are living in our summer universe. Hope you’ll come visit for 4th of July/your birthday!

I HAVE A BOARD MEETING THIS MORING. SO I GO TO BED EARLY, I GET UP AT 5:00 AM …

…I leave the apartment, go to a nice cafe, so I won’t disturb Veronika or my Guest Max. I order coffee and orange juice. Set my alarm so I wont’ get too lost in writing that I forget the meeting. Then check the invite. And that’s when I notice that the meeting got moved to TOMORROW MORNING.

Now, this would be OK, and I don’t mind getting up a little early and writing a bit. Although it means that I’ll be tired tonight.

BUT … I have to go to a Bachelor Party tonight for someone very dear to me. And that means…. Well that means a lot of bad things really. 🙂

Seriously. :/

PROGRESS … IF IT ISN”T ONE THING ITS ANOTHER THING. 🙂

I haven’t written much on libertarianism in the past few weeks because the business has required quite a bit of attention.

First, we had a key developer that it turned out has an alcohol problem. And slowly he degenerated into a disaster and I had to let him go. I was pretty worried about the impact but it’s actually been the opposite – a dramatic improvement. Progress is faster, the office is more peaceful and relaxed, and the quality of work is much better. I don’t like to play project manager on customer gigs because I don’t have the gift, but on products it’s something I enjoy. So, I’ve taken us all ‘Kanban’ which is a nice name for how we used to develop software with yellow pads of paper, a white board and index cards. 🙂 We have a nice organized backlog, and we’re shutting down issues as fast as we can. It’s great. In the past week we’ve gotten features and work done that I’ve been frustrated about for months.

Today I have to pay a ton of bills both business and personal. Sigh. 🙂

So I’ll have to get the business back on track in order to get my writing back on track.

One book I hadn’t read before is the Age of Fracture by Daniel Rogers. Quite good. Vague. As a participant in that revolution I’m kind of curious why Rogers describes these movements as less directed, and less of a combat to kill socialism and postmodernism than they were.

We made intentional decisions to take conservatism and libertarianism the directions that we did, just as the postmodernists did. We had the good fortune to do the world a favor and kill off communism and socialism, but postmodernism is the vampire that we can’t seem to put a stake through.

WE DID IT ON PURPOSE WITH FORETHOUGHT.

I don’t know about the other side. But I was writing pamphlets all over the place in the 80’s and 90’s and we were discussing strategy and acting on it. What we didn’t expect was immigration, nor the rate of the fall of the nuclear family, and the emergence of single women and single mothers as the policy determining force in the electorate.

But our financial strategy worked. That was the interesting part.