I’ve built some foundations this year, or that’s how it feels. Touchpoints that I’ve come back to or will come back to in the future.

To be out of the mainstream command-and-control systems, even a little, opens up opportunity, but for some it takes many years for the opportunity to blossom into something meaningful. It took me years to adjust; specifically, to take ownership of my own time and decision-making. It can be just as much a struggle as being under the yoke of corporate bosses. The payoffs come in spurts and over long periods.

This year I have a few projects that I’ve brought to completed milestones. I built an application for tracking my dreams and released that after coming up on a decade of work. I built an algorithmic trading system, two years in the making and nearly a full-time job’s level of time investment. I’m exploring businesses and trying to write. It all is moving somewhere, but the end is not entirely clear.

The end of each sprint of work has been a checkpoint, some place I can put the project down to rest while I place my attention elsewhere. I can then pick it back up later when I’m ready. It’s been a good way to live. I do hope to build my life on this formula, following the FLOW rather than forcing and fighting. I still have not fully freed myself, but I know I am making progress and growing into it

Where will the Dao take us next?