The good thing is that the transcripts are still free. So I'll be reading more and hearing/watching less. Kinda like switching tv for a good novel, I'd think.
Blogging has done one thing well to me and that's the reason I blog regularly. It helped shape my thinking well. Often when you have an idea it can be vague - formless. Writing it down gives it a good shape and setting it in stone. It's also not a magazine where every fucking thing is edited, you have the will to write whatever you want, however you want.
To summarise, discover your communicative personality and help set your ideas in stone.
Augmented Reality. Facebook in school. Teaching through Social networks. Elimination of old studies and introduction of new concepts. Nano technology more in your face. Mobile devices replacing computers. We getting a cure for cancer. We growing limbs again. The futures fine to look forward to.
I think there should be some order on the desk and allow for easy reach to the stuff you want. I keep a notebook and pen to the right of the keyboard to note out stuff I might have missed. For everything else, that I do, I use the keyboard and desktop. Like someone said. Clean Desktop. Ordered (could be messy but still ordered) desk. Always a notebook and pen and you are good to go.
I don't think it's late to do anything. Richard Bransons mom went around the world and learnt to scuba dive at the age of 85. If she can, then so can you (live your dreams that is).
My harder problem is finding out what your direction is. You obviously have a rich experience so far, what is that interests you? And like Hugh Macleod says, don't ditch the day job, start something on the side see how it rolls and then decide what you want to do with it.
The worst thing you can do is become an entrepreneur because everyone around you is becoming one or because you think that's a way to a quick buck.
That's an interesting view. I'm not scared of doing the hardwork no money entrepreneur thing for a while. Can you give me tips on how to go about finding direction?
Ya if he actually gets to not using Google this won't be just a stunt saying "Hey Microsoft sucks, but I can't say that publicly so I'll instead show you how when Google OS comes out using it won't be a problem at all".