Constancy of Purpose?

Is 8 years too long between blog posts?

Really, in tech time, that's like forever ago! Instagram, Siri, and Uber were just launching back then.

I recently left my 9-5 job doing government-sponsored research to go down the sweat-equity route, starting with self-sponsored research and avoiding all that proposal writing. Since that also means no contractually-required status reports, it seems like my blog would be a good way to share my journey with the wider world. But certainly there would be a lot of dust and cobwebs to blow away first--right?

As it turns out, my first and only post from 2010 is as appropriate today as it was back then--almost like nothing has changed. Of course, in the wider world many things have changed greatly. But then as now, my first blog post was/is a statement of what's important to me and what I hope to accomplish--in other words my purpose. By some combination of luck, stubbornness, gumption, or whatever, I find myself of the same mind in a much-changed world that seems both more receptive and needy.

If, as Dr. W. Edwards Deming said, constancy of purpose is a key to success, then there's some reason to be optimistic for achieving what I wrote those many years ago--as long as it's not another 8 years before my next progress report.