It can be hard to see the trees when you are in the middle of a forest. I've always been a busy person. My wife claims I do more in the first few hours of the day than most people do all day. I like to keep up to date and track what is occurring in my field. But this has a down side for software engineering. There is so much to be aware of, so many changes, so much hype and distractions that it's easy to loose focus of just the important things. In Buddhism there is a sutra about how the land is on fire, the sky is on fire, the world is on fire,.... Not literal fire but "stuff" all around us that distracts, deflects, misleads and the like. The Internet and Mobile just ramped the fire up to 11. Imagine just stopping for a bit (I mean really stopping, not just a vacation) and clearing it all away? What would it be like? I've kind of done just that. I moved 2,000 miles from my home of 30 years, I've quit my high paying job of 13 years and stopp
Just some random (isn't it all) thoughts and doings in my life.