Bike rides are for thinking

  Today's ride was windy, on the way up -- and on the way back -- it was like flying. Or sailing.
  I was thinking about software. My friend Brent Simmons just sold one of his products, NetNewsWire.
  I thought about the team that's assembling around Blork, and where it's heading (interesting places).
  I thought about how some people, when they think of tech, think of money. I've never thought of it that way.
  I discovered that I loved to play with computers at a relatively early age. And since then, I've always thought it was a priviledge that I could pay for groceries and rent and health insurance by doing something that I would do for free, happily. :-)
  I think Brent is the same way. That's why we were so productive when we worked together in the 90s.
  Adam likes to make money, he''s good at it. He and Dvorak have this idea that we should sell licenses for podcasting. I don't think they're kidding. But Adam has an intuition about tech that agrees with mine, and we work well together too. We've now been collaborating again for a half-year. It's good. And maybe this time we'll make some money together.
  Anyway, it was very windy today. So I got a great workout. Here's a video.
  And the map. 9.94 miles. 1 hour 6 minutes.