I’ve thought a lot about technology, planning and sequence as it relates to the start of a new business. The business is mine. I’ve known I was building it ever since the first week in Second Life in early/mid 2006.
There are technological limitations. I was on an iBook when I started using SL. I geared up to a MacBook when opportunity presented toward the end of 2006. Stayed with a MacBook when first MacBook crashed hard. It has been difficult to build a company with less than top of the line equipment, but we do what we have to. From 2003 until 2007 I felt compelled to work for a world view I treasure. Thank heavens my husband of, now, 20 years is self-sufficient and financially supportive of my passions. This past decade tested him to Caring for an elderly mother during the last months of her life as she passed away in 2007, determining that I would only reenter the business world as an employee on a part-time basis while I built the structure for my own company in 2008. Learning the open source software and social networking tools also took significant amounts of time and energy.
I’m not the youngest of chickadees. I’m one of those Later Born Boomers who is much younger than what people think when they think Boomer. But I’m older than what people think of when they think Gen Xer — even though Sid Vicious had to be prototypic Xer and I’m only a week younger than he would be were he alive. Anyway, this all relates to getting new computer equipment. I’ve wanted a bigger screen than my stalwart and trusty 15 inch laptop for ages. Presbyopia you know. Larger screens are a good thing.
Back to the topic at hand. I needed new equipment before I started building islands in Second Life, or doing graphic design and web consulting, but I didn’t have it. It arrives next week. I absolutely cannot wait as all the pretty pretty for SL will be available to me, but more importantly than that I think it will cut down on the time spent doing what I do. Getting lost between windows on my tiny laptop is frustrating and time consuming. I will have the power to do real graphic design and image organization.
Bigger and faster. Sort of like a boy and his first car or me and my first typewriter. Before the days of personal computers when I was about 16 I spent enough money on an electric typewriter to buy a car. That is where my priorities were. At that time they diagnosed me as having writerly tendencies. This has developed into full content creation syndrome.
Helping others create content is now where I am at. Everything is out of sequence, wrong order, but I plod on… just like Billy Pilgrim. I have glimpsed the future and it is a virtual event.
For a long time I labored under the misconception that all I needed to do was write. Have laptop will blog. This has been wonderful and informative and connected me with many amazing people, but… I am a writer and a visual artist. I’ve accepted that now. Artist. It isn’t easy to admit for someone trained in science.
I will be consolidating many blog entries from my other blogs onto this site. Some entries will go back more 10 years. I tried to do this a couple times with other blogs over the past few years but…. once again… it was out of sequence. I think things are starting to align for me business-wise and some variant strands of life are coming together to make a very nice braid of interests, skills and products that are all wrapped up with virtual worlds.
Metaphor. Hyperbole. My job here is done.
