After a lot of thinking, I’ve decided to quit my job and try something radically different.

I’m going to work on small projects. Lots of them. My aim will be to launch one project a week (props to Jonathan Coulton). My goals are to:

  • test my interest in a number of new fields/endeavors, in order to find a few new subject areas where I can contribute to the state of the art;
  • challenge my productivity and creativity, by forcing me to meaningfully invent and implement new ideas in a very aggressive time frame; and
  • if I’m lucky, generate one or more ideas actually worth pursuing based on user interest, business potential, or world-changing potential.

I’ve got a big list of potentially interesting ideas, but I’m looking for more. If you’ve got a useful, fascinating, or just wacky idea, tell me about it and I might try to build it for you. (I’m open to all kinds of projects, but my best skills are around web application development, and I probably won’t be able to do anything I can’t train on within a day.)

My last day is Friday, May 2. After that the really hard work begins. I’m thrilled.