Why I haven’t written

I haven’t felt like I have a lot to contribute these days. I look around the web and see people sharing more cogent thoughts. The older I get the more I realize that my theories aren’t concrete enough. Here’s something I wrote in an email today to Brianne:

I’m still trying to figure out both the why’s and the how’s of a lot of life’s questions. Some days I like it all, some days I question it, but rarely do I have time to think about it long enough to make progress.

What did I really mean? Well, there’s been so much on my mind of late and I haven’t been able to come to complete clarity with it. Maybe to set a tone for what’s going to come up in the next few months I’ll share some of it with you:

• How on earth I’m going to grow SET? I have more work than I’d like to have…but I haven’t figured out the next types of people to hire (there’s presently five of us) and in what method to hire them. Yes, that sounds like a trivial question. But think about it coming from your wallet and that there are about a hundred thousand things taking place every day and then it starts to get a little more complicated.
• What is it that makes me happy, in addition to work and dating? I have so many things that I think make me happy, but when I break it down it usually just leads back to good conversations with people I respect. Which leads me to figuring how to have more of those people that are either (a) my age or (b) local. Preferably guys, too. But once again, I don’t think it’s all that simple.

Hopefully I’ll take the first of these conversations to technotheory.com. Making a service business independent from its founder is a challenge and I’m going to have to work very hard on that over the next few years–maybe technotheory.com will be the place for that discussion. As for my personal quest for happiness beyond that one significant relationship, just check back here for more thoughts on that.