I'm older now..but not much wiser. More talkative but not as smart. Better connected but less secure.

We're all just hobos on the life-train

Roni and I had been talking about the experience of inventing, developing and marketing FileSafe...one aspect of my education had been simplifying the message for easier digestion by prospects and resellers. I still don't think it's simple enough. So this is what I said:

Less is more.

BUT: When you think that less is less, it's not less enough.

No matter how simple the message is, it's not simple enough. ;(

Tabor Law's FE had a HD failure 11/23/09. Not normally a bad thing, but their drive had been reporting SMART failures for a month, and, worse, the HD array had been configured as RAID0 so the single drive failure was a catastrophe. Three of their backups last week were crap due to open files. Apparently TAR ditches if it discovers a problem during backup creation like open files.

Driving to Adam's today to have lunch - BA's at Conner Prairie with Clara and the Grandkids.

Thinking about how cute Emilia and Ethan are. Bethann says: They're so F'in cute.

Makes me think, the adult children were (are) that cute. We should send them cards with:

Even though you've gained weight (and gotten a lot taller) you're still cute to us.

Remember: as you wildly attempt to become successful, you may be poking the bear. What if he wakes up?

In a meeting Tuesday 12/20 with the 'new' 21st Century Fund, I'll be asking them:

1. How should I operate SP to NOT screw it up? How can I avoid large mistakes that could attack the viability of the business?

2. Why should I forecast the money I need now? That assumes I can predict the future. Laying out what needs to be done and a priority system would be better - and leave open the possibility that new priorities may arise.

I paid $150 for a ticket received 9/2 travelling to chicago: 74 in a 55 - oops. luckily i was eligible for diversion since my last ticket was received in 2002 - safely prior to the 9/2/2003 date necessary to qualify for the 'gift' they offered to not inform the BMV.

Last night i put the deal with Tom together. Still have to put a letter in the mail, but he wants to start before 10/1.

We now have a team capable of delivery V 1.0 of what i've designed. Together with Travis, this is quite good enough to capture several thousand sales and enough money to call it a success. Whether it will be a paradigm shift, remains to be seen.

Notes taken mostly during a conference session at the Illiana Tech SummIT 2005, June 17, 2005 at Indiana State University.

1. Entrepreneurship is like a reacting-gas, dynamic polynomial. I've described it as a chess board, where, after observing the pieces and planning a move the night before, you wake up the next morning and someone has moved all the pieces.

2. Levers: Money, Marketing, Means (Technology) [taken from a conversation I had with Travis Cross]