you ever had an idea?

I'm plagued by ideas, almost continually, most of them are nonsense. My brain has a tendency to automatically run through permutations of whatever stimulus it is provided with. This is not always helpful.

I suspect the reason I have been utterly fascinated by anything electronic and/or digital from a very early age is that it ultimately promises a environment without limits, without boundaries, where ideas can exist just for the sake of it.

This is also the reason I've worked in the digital industry for the last 25 years, it affords you the luxury of an entire realm of possibility at relatively little cost. Code is much easier to manage than say, concrete. The freedom to choose from an almost limitless number of possibilities and ask the question 'but what if it did this?'.

I'd never be a civil engineer (although in the past I've favoured being an uncivil one).

As a child I loved lego, I would sit for hours, pouring over a multi coloured sea of tiny plastic blocks, carrying a vision of what I had in mind but tempered by the boundaries of the blocks on offer. It brings a sort of discipline to the process which I sorely needed. Interestingly, as a child I was generally stumped by blank sheet of paper and set of coloured pencils. Just not my thing.

Digital is the same, it's not an infinite gradation of minute adjustments. It's a set of blocks, layered up in a range of scales, from bits at the bottom, all the way up to entire industries. But fundamentally still constructed of brightly coloured blocks.

This blog is about what I've learnt in 25 years of navigating this space, this liquid space (See what I did there).