Exploring the brave New World

This blog is not connected to my business. For all I know it's never been read. But some of the taglines to which I have written I do feel to be extremely important - not only for now, but for the future.

The time between posts is not without activity. Much time is spent in the day-to-day of processing work and trying to find new ways of getting business done. That part of "trying to find" We might think of as "Exploring" but perhaps it's just hunting and gathering.

These are, to be sure, difficult times, but the underlying structure of this time is the same as any other. We need to run our businesses, we need to achieve sales goals and restrict expenses. We need to make plans for the path forward, including product developments, marketing plans, financial contingencies.

But these are also different times. Not just that we are trying to spend less money. Everyone is trying to spend less money. In our lives the essentials of one's mortgage (or shall I call it shelter) food and general living expenses are central to our concerns. and as we go to work and school and market.

These days we also have these phones in our pockets, computers on some desks (most desks). We have this new layer of cyberspace that has entered our domain, creating a fourth dimension through which we must also navigate. This is not so new but it is indeed evolving. Perhaps I am through with Email. I would like to be.

I'm writing this post, somewhat to put off the work that I will do next at the house today (it is Sunday of course). And here I am fiddling with this interface on my laptop which is a mysterious Bluetooth connection that goes between my telephone headset and this computer. If I speak deliberately (not too liberally as it transcribed) and watch -- it happens to actually go into the text box. Well, not just a "text box" but this thing called a "blog post input box", and I'm staring at now. And I realize too, that I am not talking about the original subject of this was to detail the difficulties of this time, but I am rambling.

So I guess in the style of most posts. I should keep this short (which I have not done) so that next time someone might return and read about some other subject. If tht is you, you may read about how newspapers are in trouble or our infrastructure will be rebuilt by the printed whims of Washington, the Federal Reserve. Or you will hear of some media whitewashing of the "real situation." You might read about the importance of "coats for kids" programs, and how to house the "homeless"population. And I hope you won't read from me about a domino like series of bankruptcies - ones not just in the business world, but in municipalities and states and ultimately our federal government.

I hope you won't be reading that. But I don't know too much of hope.