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About this bLog
2/16/2002 3:50 PM
Hi, you've found my WebLog. My Name is Michael Ax and I'm in the process of refocusing my career. In that process I have started this Weblog. It is to get me used to WebLogging. I believe that I need to develop this skill in order to stay on top of thoughts and things in the changing world that enhanced computing power is starting to deliver for those in the field. I have never had a WebLog, nor have I ever given much thought to how my ruminations will affect my readers - including myself - down the road. So far I'm working by the 3/4 rule with what i do here... I do what I think is right in the moment - expecting and accepting a 50:50 chance that I mess up. If I dont mess up I'll be on to something else. And when find myself in the 50% that didn't quite work the first time I expect a 50:50 chance fixing it. Because of the 3/4 rule I am giving you an open book containing what will at times be rough, raw, easily misunderstood and sometimes obscure. I can't help that quite yet. My focus is not quite on being a writer yet. I'm still in a mode where this blog's for me.. more than anyone. But back to this blog.. I am a Technologist, a Programmer, a Systems Designer, a Database specialist, an Object Oriented Programming Guru, an expert in the dynamic web, stateful and stateless programming. I have not had a real job in some 22 years. I've run my own companies, been a Consultant to some very big ones, gotten laurels and had my albatros. I've built dozens of systems for dozens of companies. from the ground up .. or rescues, I've done both. Most recently I've had an internet startup based on my stuff. Now I am in the process of integrating the accidental parts of my business into what I do as I grow up. Starting as a kid, later as a consultant and most recently during the last 7 years as small internet god of sort I would review, analyze, evaluate, research and always add value to other people's plans. I got really good at that and during my www crazed years got to tell quite a few winners from amongst the loosers and cheats. Now I am moving into a new synthesis where I am offering my perspective on business and technology, my 22 years of hands-on experience with leading and bleeding edge stuff and ideas to management and technology teams. Exactly how I'll packaging myself is yet to be seen because there is more.. Starting 18 years ago when I first emigrated to the United States from Germany I began a study of body-mind integration. That sort of messed up a perfectly unhappy geek and began changing him. I learned to express myself not just in a new primary language, I also learned to recognize and speak about emotions. This emotion thing coupled with an analytical mind stuck behind a computer screen for extended hours cooked up a strange mix of insights into myself. I cultivated a sense of my mind and whole body so that I would know when and where I was making mistakes in my work. From those observations I started exploring the fringes and the center of human development applying what I could to my own life. Seemed the responsible thing to do as a self-respecting programmer. Now I have a deep backgroung in human anatomy, emotional development, the mind/body interaction realm, group dynamics, nutrition, that sort of thing. I've studied the healing arts, I can see 'stuff', I can forcast in more systems that I care to, I know and use astrology to temper me. So that's the situation right now. I'm figuring it out, and I'm practicing logging some thought and links i'd otherwise just bookmark without honoring the moment. Claiming my ground, if you want to say it that way. I'm aware of how I'm logging the traces of thoughts generated by my internal 'pin-ball machine'. It's annoying to myself to find myself tagging opinions onto other people's links and thoughts... I accept that I'm starting there. Writing is a lot of work and right now I'm happy to have a place to put up my 20% sketches of the thing.
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