Addendum

I'll continue to blog after I leave the philosophical fold. It may get a bit more computery, but it'll still just be me waffling in my usual kind of way.

It's Been A While

Hello.

I've not written anything on here for a couple of weeks; I would like to say that I've been busy, but I've mostly been procrastinating (a word that's horribly overused by students – and only students).

So, I've decided that I'll more than likely be giving up philosophy. At least for a while. I hope to go into the indie Mac software business – although I'll need to get a real job while that's taking-off. My bibliography program is going well, and I hope to have proper betas out before Christmas. I'm going to call the company 'Fake Barn'.

If someone had told me a few years ago that I'd be giving up philosophy to try and start a software company, well... I guess they'd be psychic or something. But I'd also have been quite doubtful. I really wanted to get into teaching philosophy: I think philosophy's greatest use (perhaps only use) is to get people to think more clearly. But you can't just teach undergraduate philosophy. And, to be honest, I find philosophy conferences pretty hard work. Even going to one talk. I'm normally the guy at the back looking out the window.

Of course, the great thing about academia is you can come back to it whenever you want. Maybe my mind will have changed in a few years. Maybe it won't. Maybe the software thing will take off. Maybe it won't. I've gone from having the next ten years planned (PhD, lecturing, etc.) to not knowing what I'll do in a couple of months time.

It's kinda exciting!