Just another blog?

So, what’s all this then? Well, possibly a lot of things. For one reason or another, I haven’t blogged much in the last couple of years, so I’ve got a lot of posts to get off my chest. I’ve also got a new business launching soon, and that will get a certain amount of airtime here once it’s underway, but we’ll also have a dev-blog and biz-blog and that will be where I talk about that the most. This is more of a personal outlet.

The thing I’ll probably post most about here is philanthrogeeking, and philanthrohacking. Musings about what is good, how it might best be achieved, and who’s acheiving it. In general, I think an enormous amount of good can be done by smart people who are actually thinking about how they can maximise the beneficial effects of their time and money, rather than just work off some sort of internal guilt, or generate some positive PR for themeselves or their company.

Currently my philanthrogeeking is mostly in an observational role, with occaisional flights of fancy about what I might be able to achieve when I have more time and money. At the monent 95% of my time and money is going into the startup. I don’t really mind, because I think that as well as being quite profitable, our startup is going to do a lot of good for a lot of people. Mainly, just by making knowledge workers more productive, and their businesses more profitable, but I also think we might actually make the internet just a bit more valuable for everyone, and that makes me very happy.

What else is this blog for? Well I’ll occaisionally talk about software and web-apps that have impressed me or made my life easier. I might talk about productivity techniques like David Allen’s “Getting things Done” - a book that ought to be compulsary reading for every knowledge worker. If you’re really into this sort of thing, Gina Trapani’s lifehacker blog is compulsary reading.

As a geek with a philosophy degree, I might get a bit wordy and esoteric at times, for which I apologize in advance. I may also mix up my English and American spellings, for which I also apologise in advance. Blame it on the blogosphere.