I’ve recently upgraded my primary workstation to Office 2007, Internet Explorer 7, and Firefox 2. I took the necessary precautions, but honestly everything has worked out smoothly (partly because I’d been using the products in our demo environment for some time). Okay, the only problems I’ve run into are Treo sync issues and Firefox crashing. But while these upgrades are likely fodder for their own post, I’d just like to thank Microsoft for finally allowing the user to resize the Cross-Reference window. I’ve complained about this for years–nothing was more painful than a cross-reference window that was tiny and constantly lost its place when inserting references. Finally it’s been fixed–both problems! Thank you, Microsoft.

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We’ve all heard the mantra that a business must grow or die. Over time it’s begun to sink in. At first it was just me working too many hours, then it was contractors, then it was employees + contractors. And at each phase there was always a point where I worked too much. Now is one of those times.

Grow the business I must do–or sure as I heck I’ll be the one that takes the fall.

I bet no one’s following this site just now, but I assure you it’s not because I haven’t had things to share or that I’ve lost my motivation. It’s that I haven’t had anything worthwhile to say. The web is full of ideas from all sorts of people and I didn’t (and probably still) haven’t found a voice that I like hearing out of my blog.

This issue of grow or die is one that I have to focus on. It’s probably a big part of the reason why I haven’t been writing. It’s certainly what’s been usurping my time. Or rather, the fact that I don’t have time. It’s the evening and I haven’t paused from work-related things yet today. If I want to be happy I need to give SET a chance to live on its own:

SET must grow or it won’t ever get a real chance to live.

Four and a half years ago I decided to start a company. Within six months it was able to pay for my livelihood. Within a year or two I was debt free. But if I had just found a job in the tech-world I could have made more money quicker. If it’s taken me this long to be where I am then I need to have something to show for it. And what that thing must be is not me, and not some material object–that thing must be greater. I need to be able to say five years from now that SET exists completely outside of me.

So this blog post is me putting my foot down. Maybe it’ll mean that I write more here. Maybe it’ll just sit here as a landmark. But it’s time to grow.

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