New week

New week

Second week of the spring semester starts. 14 to go still. I am still in very good and productive mood, all courses are interesting. I even enjoy the risk and benefit analysis. It may turn out to be hard, but it is rather important topic, and the tools are certainly useful later, whatever I end up doing.

It is still sunny, maybe 5C, no wind. I walked to MIT with Robbie. It was a pleasant walk in good company. The walk was maybe even too short, only 20 minutes. I need more exercise. But I felt fresh and alert, and the first lecture was fine. Afterwards, I read the required pages of the Apollo books, and now it is time to have some Chinese food for lunch.

The Apollo-course was as good, or even better, as/than last week. It so much fun, but also so much reading and writing too! But that is exactly why I came here. I also met mr Koo, and after talking to him I am all more convinced that I must write my thesis with him and others related in the pursuit of developing system architecting tools. It is what I have been thinking about and missing for the last 5 years now. And now I have a possibility to do something useful. What a happy coincidence. Or so I think right now. Ask me about all this in early December and I will may have other opinions.

I talked about leadership and my career plans with Jan Klein. Mostly private issues, but one thing has now become clear. I cannot work anymore in any large organization, ever. It would just be an intellectual suicide. My career anchor seems to be freedom, and I am willing to pay any price I need to just to work in a place, which has lots of intellectual freedom and in which I can plan my work flexibly, and in which hard intellectual work is respected. MIT would be one such place, but there are others, too. Let's see what materializes.

I started to use the service of Total Care Laundry Services. They will pick up my laundry, which I leave at my door, wash and fold it, and return it next day. All for $1.05 per pound. Excellent. Next service I would need and be willing to pay for would be cleaning my studion. If anyone know a cheap, but not exploitative, cleaning service, let my know. Use the email at the top of this page.

Alun perin julkaistu kuukausikoosteessa "Blogs February 2005".