I’ve been rather busy these past few weeks as I come up to speed on my new job. During this period I’ve had several thoughts that keep coming back into my head.

The first is that process has to make the product and the path to product get better. A lot of people share this mantra with me. The trick is to figure out what this means, per company, and how to apply it (or remove it). This is something that I’ve played with at almost every company I’ve been at over the last 10 years or so. There aren’t silver bullets and there is trial and error.

Another thought that I find myself frequently coming back to is that at the end of the day, seeing an actual piece of hardware as your product is more fulfilling, to me, than something in the clouds. Don’t get me wrong, I love all the great work going on in the clouds – and I plan on utilizing it more and more (hello offsite storage!) but for me, at this stage, tripping over robots is pretty damn neat. And more satisfying. I guess you could say my years in database helped me appreciate embedded development.

Now that time is sort of returning to normal, I do plan to return to posting more thoughts on management and a lot more thoughts on robotics and AI/Machine Intelligence. For example, this site has gotten a lot of my free time attention of late – aigamedev.