Getting back to work

Some Definitions

Work: action directed toward a goal.

Temperance: balance made possible by hope and by adherence to ordered priorities.

Diligence: temperate work sustained over time.

Honor: a quantity obtained by achieving goals so long as that achievement is not at the expense of more fundamental goals. (This is not a general definition. Rather it is a concept meant only for this blog.)

As I wrote last week I want to be able to move quickly from ideas to implementation. Ironically that means that I will have to take time to lay some ground work. Let me lay out a road map of this blog:

Big goal: a successful 1 hour per day company built using the principles of work, diligence, and temperance. Can it be done? I can't prove that it can't be done. But I can try and prove by example that it can be done.

Smaller goal: make and sell interactive tools to enhance musical education. This is fun, interesting, and we have worked on it. There is a real market and we think we can make a contribution.

Yet smaller goal: tool up to make simple but effective tools quickly.

Even smaller goal: make very simple, distributable, portable, interactive GUI using Python. Must have 2 modules, a data folder, and use one sound element and one graphical element.

Most of this week will be spent in Lake Powell with Crew 335. The rest will mostly be in Los Alamos. That leaves me a good three hours to work on the "even smaller goal." We'll see what can be done.