So, why am I doing this?

I more or less gave up writing Tesugen. And that has bothered me ever since. Perhaps I have realized all along that it is an outlet I need. But I reasoned that I wrote for stimulation, and that work was my new stimulation.

Back in my head I have always thought about starting to write for Tesugen again.

But work came with a new weblog (about the social web and starting a company). And I need to keep things apart, I need an order. For the company weblog, the order was pretty clear. But I wasn't sure quite what Tesugen was about.

While I wrote actively, I felt OK about it being about everything that happened to catch my attention. Rather, that was the only way it could work. I started a Swedish weblog, and one called "Irrational Software" about software development not being engineering, and a small one about a development project I thought I was starting. And eventually I folded each of these into Tesugen. One weblog.

So, why am I doing this? To figure out what Tesugen was about (I have a hunch). And to figure out how it can fit in alongside everything else.

I have a hunch.

It is not about architecture but architecture as a venture. Coming up with ideas for buildings, evolving them in teams, building them, experiencing them, then evolving them once they are built.

Exactly the same for software development.

And for writing. And moviemaking. And making music, television series, art.

It is not about cities and planning cities but ... you get the idea.

All the things involved in or related to these things; communication, semiotics, having and conveying ideas, design, deconstruction, sketches, diagrams, prototypes, brainstorming, releasing early and often, iterating, refactoring, mistakes made and learnt from, creative accidents, creative juxtapositioning, metaphors, omitting (eliminating) the needless, adaptation, defining the constraints and exploiting them, keeping the flame.

I'm not sure why I am doing this. But I think I'll just go ahead and move things here that fit into this order, and getting rid of the rest.

Comments

[Andy Baio]

Thank you. You were missed.

Here's one vote for keeping everything from the old site, unedited and unfiltered. It's a great historical record of where/who you were at the time, even the uninteresting parts.

[Peter Lindberg]

Thanks, Andy!

I will consider keeping the old stuff.