Moving on

I'll be leaving Popcap in the end of December. I'm halfway through my 3 months (!!!) notice and it's now just a question of winding up my work and spending the last few weeks with my colleagues.

It's the fourth place in a row where I decide that I've had enough and it's time to move on.
Maybe it's just me, but jobs feel like a snake's skin - sooner or later you reach the limit and the only way to grow is to throw it and get a new one.

This time it's different though. Instead of looking for work at someone else's company, I'll focus on my own ideas and try to create products and a business around them. I won't be calling it a startup yet and don't want to hype it too much. It's just a few things I'd like to try and I'll spend the next 6-12 months looking for gold nuggets or getting my butt kicked by the universe.

Thankfully the last 12 years gave me the experience to believe I know what I'm doing and enough savings to be able to afford an experiment or two. But probably the most important, I can count on my family for all the support and all the pressure I can wish for (and maybe a little more).
Plus I've already done some crazy things that looked pretty impossible in the beginning. It can't be that much harder than loosing 40 kilograms or running a marathon.
Right?

R.I.P. Steve Jobs

A really sad day.

Diversity

Why on earth are people so different?!
What I see as the end, is the beginning for someone.
And often my dreams are the nightmares for others.

Thank god that people are so different!
Or no one would take over when I've had enough.
And my dreams would be all worn-out and crowded.

What's next?

I haven't blogged much lately, mostly because I was busy, but also because some pretty exciting things were happening at my current job and I was waiting for things to settle.
Now it's all done and dusted. And my life is completely upside-down!

I've never imagined that being so free to choose what to do next would be that frightening.
Should I pick some of the less risky options or do I just jump and do what I've always dreamed of? What if I choose wrong? What if I fail? Am I capable enough? Can I afford it?
It's so much easier when there is someone or something to blame, when there are "good" reasons to delay your decisions and your plans for the future are in the future.

So what will I do?
Haven't quite decided yet. Though one thing is for sure - there will be changes. Soon!

Until then I'll be doing lots of traveling, meeting people, talking to family and friends and figuring out things.
Oh, and I'll be writing here much more frequently .

uplift.in

I'm somewhat of a domain addict. If I encounter a nice unregistered or expiring domain and can think of a cool idea to match it, I'd register the name as a reminder. Then every time I have to do some maintenance at my registrar, I'd go through the list of currently unused domains (it's just a few, I'm not a squatter) and for each idea revisit if I want to do something about it immediately, hold on it for a little longer or just forget it and drop the name.

Uplift.in is one such domain that I bought last year with the idea of building a service for publishing only positive, feel-good, uplifting news. For one or another reason I feel like starting this now and pushed an initial version last night.
It's a stock installation of Pligg at the moment, but I'll be working on the design and the content in the next few months. There may be also some additional cool features on the "roadmap".
By the way I have no business plan about this and there won't be ads on the site. Just a nice community service to warm you up:)