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What Do I Want

I’ve got my hands in a lot of things. I run my own business. I am the organizer of two Ruby groups. I record a weekly podcast. I write a blog post every week. I am a husband, a parent, and a foster parent. There are a huge amount of _I_s to go around. Sometimes I wonder how I keep going.

All of this business has me thinking about why I do all the things. What do I want? What drives me? I can say there is no shortage of passion for any of my activities. For this blog I will focus on business and programming.

I love what I do. I get to take nothing and make it into something; just to delight other people. Why wouldn’t you want to do that? I couldn’t imagine myself with a different career. Writing software with great design is my passion. Is passion enough to sustain me in the long run? What do I want out of my career?

In the short term I want to keep moving forward and creating great products. I want to delight my customers and leave them in a better position than I found them. I want them to have the freedom to hire anyone in the world, but come to me because they know I care.

Learning is a very important part of the satisfaction I get from my career. I want to make sure that I am sharing what I learn with those around me. This is part of the reason I am on the podcast. I want to share myself with the world. I don’t want others to make the same mistakes that I have made. Although this sounds altruistic letting you believe that would be a lie. This is the most selfish part of all my activities. I love to teach because I learn more in teaching than any other endeavor. The questions I’m asked and the situations that others share with me in hopes that I have the answer often induce my brain to make connections that weren’t there moments ago. When you have to rethink the “why” of your understandings you learn more and more.

In the middle term I want to build a small team that can get companies off with a great product. I don’t want contracts that I drag on forever. Long contracts are great when the customer needs me, but I don’t want to drag it out to bleed them dry. I’ve seen too many situations like this and this business strategy creates a fire burning anger in my soul. The defenestration of all company leaders that have that goal would make our career field more trusted and the world a better place. When I take a client I want to become their biggest fan and treat their company as my own.

I want to make great products and even have my team help the customer’s team get started. I’ve been on long term projects and they are fantastic, but I really love helping people get to their vision with a sustainable piece of software. Too many startups end up with loads of tech debt by the time their product hits the market. This tech debt then slows them down so the competition can arise and overtake them. I love showing companies how to live like no one else, so that they can live like no one else.

Long term I would love to have my own products that help the world. This is not the ultimate goal for me. I would like to have some small products that make a sustainable amount of money so that I can worry less about the income and concentrate on all the previous goals. I want to continue to teach, learn, and hopefully inspire others. I want to continue to help customers reach their goals by focusing their vision and building amazing tools and products with them.

What do you want from your career and other activities? Whatever it may be, make sure that you are having fun and making the world a better place.

The Past

Contact Me

Company
Binary Noggin
Email
contact@binarynoggin.com
Github
Adkron
BinaryNoggin
Twitter
@adkron
@binarynoggin
Podcast
This Agile Life