When I was jr. high and high school, our church would go to summer camp. It would be a week up in the mountains, staying in cabins and doing all sorts of things. Each night would have a church-like service with singing and a sermon. The last night was always the night of decision. If you had been moved during the week, you were asked to come forward to either accept Christ or rededicate your life to Him. I'll be the first to admit that I went forward for rededication most years and of course each time I knew that my decision would stick. Obviously it didn't. The reasons were varied but I think the main root cause was just being back in my normal life and not being in the mountaintop environment.
I think tech conferences are kind of like that. I had so many plans and ideas during the weekend. I jotted down almost a page of notes on the plane home. I spent time last night trying to sketch out emails to send with my new thinking. And what happened today? Well, basically, the project I'm working on is still there and there are still many things to do so my big picture plans need to be put on hold.
I'm worried that my delaying, the change to implement some stuff will be gone. It's a very tough thing to figure out and even tougher to decide where to start.
Posted by Josh at October 17, 2005 09:08 PM