I have been blogging every weekday since the start of this year as part of my goal to write more in 2011. This marks my 31st post, but I am going to take a break over the next four days to do battle with Disney World and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. We have a 12-year old son who has wanted to visit WWHP even before it opened, and we figured he would outgrow his HP obsession if we don’t strike at this threshold-crossing 13th birthday. Plus, we get to check the box on Disney World for our two youngest… something we did for our two oldest kids back in 2001 and thought we were all done with. Back we go. Wish us luck. I hope we survive.
I am also going to be doing some soul-searching about whether to continue my daily duty here at Pittsburgh Ventures. I can see the value in continuing with my daily posts, but I have seen some other activities that I really like to do suffer because of the time I put into posting. It doesn’t seem like it should take so long to put up a few hundred words every day, but it just does. I am missing my morning reading hour that I really got addicted to last year, and the books that I want to read are starting to pile up mentally and physically. I don’t think I even finished two books in January, so my production is way down compared to last year. And forget my exercise schedule; what little there was before is completely gone this year.
Perhaps I am just more of a consumer than a creator at this point in my career. Can’t force the muse.
Comments (2)
Get the Disney and Universal Studios apps from Phunware. They include wait times, which is HUGE. Good luck. I’ll be there the first week of March.
I for one, get a lot out of this blog. The VC, startup, and general business focus is top-notch, but I particularly like the leavening of personal stuff (Disney, Catholicism, Reading Contests). You and Fred Wilson get that balance right, and that’s why your blogs survive my monthly RSS purge.
Part of what you’re doing is offering insight into the world of VC, but an equally valuable part is insight into another person on “the journey”– trying to have a rich professional life while maintaining a meaningful family life.
Hope you choose to continue.