Unbridled ruminations at 2:26am

I am, perhaps, in the quintessential developer scene - lights out with eyes wide open staring into a few computer screens and typing away furiously (ok, maybe slight exaggeration) into my backlit Apple keyboard. Frankly, this is nothing unusual for me and several night owls scattered around the world (you know yourselves). Except, instead of typing code, reading something funny/weird or poking around the internet, I am writing a blog post that I intend to publish. Ha!

Walking down memory lane a bit, writing is not completely foreign to me. I enjoyed penning down my thoughts on paper growing up. Writing for me is the discipline of filtering a flurry of thoughts which usually evokes clarity and uncovers blindspots. It was and remains a thrill to me. It has provided relief in some of my lowest moments and has also helped gather my thoughts and articulate my intent around a variety of things.

I got major sidetracked here (and that’s ok. I no longer fight when my mind wanders, I merely seek to be conscious of the moment it occurs)

I am at a friends place and have been for a couple weeks now on the east coast. My friend, Chris went out with his buddy, Tyrone and just made it back home. As the door cracks open, interrupting my silent night, I immediately think “ah, there goes my writing plans”. This is because I met with Tyrone
a few days ago and I quickly surmised he enjoys talking and asking questions, lots of questions. And as I type right now, Tyrone asks “Iowa, were you hurt yesterday?”. Ignoring the humorous wreckage of my name I was genuinely piqued by this question. Turns out, Tyrone was only able to sleep at 1pm today because we all stayed up last night watching episodes of Black Mirror. Tyrone’s mind is interesting and maybe fascinating to me. He quickly drifts to discussing Bitcoin and then to probing what my friend and I’s wildest adventures to date are.

I will note that I had no intentions of writing about Tyrone in this pilot piece but his free mind / thoughts would not let my mind settle either. He’s on the phone now so maybe I can finally get a few of my final thoughts in here before I hit the deck.

In other news, I am also closer than ever to pulling the plug on a project I’ve worked on for a few years. (Maybe one of these days I will write a full-length post about my learnings from this experience). Talk about “out with the old, in with the new” in 2021 🍷. Precisely, I have since mentally checked out and all that’s left is communicating this to my amazing partners. But, because, my mind is open to boundless interests, I already have potential new interests to pursue vigorously. All of these would probably make for stand-alone pieces.

As I conclude documenting my unbridled thoughts tonight, I will likely make the effort to be more coherent in the future. Lest I forget, it’s also my friends birthday today. Jan. 3rd. So, Happy Birthday Chris! blessings.

Playing in background: Fireboy DML - Airplane Mode Instrumental (I listen to instrumentals lately, a whole lot)

Take less ✌️