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LITTLE_OLD_ME

                                             June   7, 2005
                                             April 11, 2007


Unlike someone like Paul Graham, I did
not get rich working at my second job,    If you look over
so there's no particular reason to pay    my career...            Possibly,
attention to what I'm saying.                                     "careen"
                                          I can't claim that      describes
  But one of the things you can           anything I've done      it better.
  say about someone like myself           (as of yet) looks
  is that I may actually have a           impressive enough
  wider range of experience in            to justify spending
  some respects than a Paul               much time on my
  Graham -- who may, after all,           writing.
  be a "one hit wonder"...
  because there's no particular
  need for him to be anything
  else.
                                   I think I've
   Still, I have a hard            seen more of
   time finishing up my            the gritty,
   grand treatises of              middle-level
   software development            technical work
   philosophy...                   that the
                                   computer biz
       I keep feeling              runs on.         Graham is happy
       like I should                                to give you
       just get back                                advice on doing
       to writing                                   start-ups, but
       code.                                        that's not the
                                                    only phase of
                                                    the life cycle.



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