Nov 07, 2025

009 — Dragons and a new timeline

Redundant. A weight lifted. A box sealed. A camera out of it's bag.

Redundant. That’s what they tell me I am. Re-dun-dant. A weight lifted from my shoulders with every syllable. Merely an accelerator to the timeline I had promised myself.

Writing software was a creative act for me: problem solving within a set of constraints, where the strength of your work correlates with the restrictions imposed on you. Whereas a career writing software is a different animal. It’s a long walk into a strange landscape of make-believe. The language shifts into something foreign and your simple desire to solve problems becomes lost. To survive you forge hard-won experience into a suit of armour. But the armour is heavy. It makes you slow, inflexible. And dragons await, ready to cook you alive inside it.

Yet again I find myself needing to seal this profession in a box for a while. However the lock is mine, and won’t be removed for anyone’s hunger but my own.

Convention dictates this situation demands an intervention, a war council where a decisive plan of action is established. Instead, I’ll direct my attention towards work that excites my curiosity.

That looks like print experiments for Makers. That looks like balancing a 50mm with a 21mm. A twist on a classic pairing.