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Life Goals

I’m totally procrastinating on stuff I need to get done. In the meantime, I might as well write something, right? A long time ago, I set out with some life goals. These are different from the goals that everyone talks about (3 or 5 year ones) in that they’re more singular things you wish to accomplish at some point in your life. I had a list but lost it though a number of things have been crossed off that list so here’s my first draft at a new list. Like the old list, a lot of it is travel oriented. What can I say? It’s my passion.

- Get a patent with my name on it (possibly done)
- Publish my own comic (now needs to be qualified with “in print”)
- Walk along the Great Wall of china
- Visit Tibet
- Ski the Alps (done)
- ???
- Profit!

Notice there aren’t family oriented ones. Not because I don’t want a family and such but I just don’t view them as “goals” so much as “things that happen naturally if they feel right”. The list is much shorter than it used to be. I need to think more about this but there it is for now. Not too hard of a list honestly. I need to reach out and make some more audacious ones or I’ll be done in two years.


3 Comments

While plowing through my own list of todos, I found yours as you are one those on my list to contact with something about comics and patents.

So, you want to patent something!
Great, there is much that can be patented, even software.

Although ultimately software will finally find its natural place as a language that instructs machines and will fall out of the patenting circus, this will take some time, so if your patent is going to involve software, you do not have to hurry. Just make it something really clever. But then it it is something really clever, you may not want to patent it. Remember, Coca-Cola did not patent its formula. They were damn smart, whoever those they were that made that decision.

In my uncondition blog you will find the presentation slides from SHIFT and the link to the WIPO comic brochures about patents.

Great to have met you in Lisbon.

Posted by Dannie Jost on 12 October 2006 @ 2pm

Hey Dannie, it was great meeting you at SHiFT. I guess one doesn’t want to patent when you want to really keep it secret like the Coke thing. The one I have in preparation is not actually quite that worthy, but I’ll take what I can get. I’m not really sure why it’s a goal other than, “hey, that’d be cool”.

For those that are joining this discussion, Dannie spoke at the conference I was at in Lisbon about patents and software. I unfortunately wasn’t able to attend that particular session so I’m glad she’s posted the slides!

Posted by Kevin Cheng on 20 October 2006 @ 3am

Come to beijing and Let me show you the best spot of great wall. :)

Posted by Kevin on 25 November 2006 @ 12pm