New Life
Instead of writing text now I’m writing code.
Text
Text is obsolete as technology, and, currently it was transformed by internet from being primarily a medium for spanning imagination into a medium of (just) supporting and spreading information.
Also we lack tools to make textual information to work, to become knowledge, reality. There are no such things like working semantic web, really usable mind mapping software, self-aware and continuously, automagically expanding blog post, visualisable knowledge base.
We take text and memes, trying to memorize them, trying to store them and make them searchable, rememberable. But we are often left only with the memorisation — and that in a very unefective way. We mostly keep just a clue about something, the exact knowledge is eroded very quickly, in days or maximum a couple of weeks.
Too much energy for almost nothing. Too much procrastination.
Text shows you only the horizon, all the possibilities the world has, not your real opportunities as a finite individual. Text is the first new sense one must develop to live this new reality.
Text is to see code is to do.
Code
Code is reality. Immaterial transformed into material; memes, skills and style brought to life.
No one is able to change the world with a book anymore but anybody can change our life by a simple web application. Today is faster to do than to explain what to do and how to do.
Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.
People need tools instead of information. People believe in products not in theories. The highest value today in digital is usability not entertainment.
Code is life. Multiplexed.
Iterates faster than biological and spiritual life. It is always hooked back to a core through feedback and self reflection. Yes it has a very visible and complex soul. It is a living channel between the horizon and many real lives. It is the future now.
Code is the fittest lifeform which exists today.
The fastest changing yet the outermost reaching thus the most profitable. Encapsulates culture, technology and human life. It is the new canon laying down the rules.
Disclaimer
Currently I’m working alone on all fronts of a startup: sensing the need, putting in context with global and local trends, designing the solution, focus on timing, choosing the tools, writing the code, creating user experiences, getting feedback, preparing to market and sell it.
I have exactly 20 years spent in IT, from assembling hardware to founding companies. It was never easier for a single guy to build a complete product/service than today.
My previous startup supports me financially. I had two years to make myself able to see the large horizon. I’ve created around 10-20 websites loved both by owners and customers. The last couple of years I’ve spent learning again to code. Prior that I fully lived in the corporate world to see what needs to be changed and how.
With this post I just want to express my excitement about the possibilities we have today. It was never such beautiful to start something up. Something that can change many people’s life and definitively yours.
