Shared Secret

I am a geek.

No matter what I do, I can't stop.

I think about geeky things - a lot.

I think about life, business, society, technology, design, outer space, culture, music, family, parenting, sports, simplicity, systems, change, and experiences - and the list of geeky things I think about goes on and on.

It's a giant tangled mess up there.

I think about how things come to be and if they are how they should be. I think about how they should be and what they could be. I think about each alone, and I think about the relationships between them. Eventually, it dawns on me that I've been thinking too much on my own.

Sometimes I talk about these geeky things.

Sometimes with other people - but is it strange that I often talk about them with myself? Sometimes the things I say make sense - and sometimes they don't. It turns out that sometimes I don't know what I'm talking about.

I've learned that geeks like me are everywhere.

You are probably a geek too. You can't stop thinking either, can you?

We are geeks.

We each have unique problems, pet peeves, interests, and passions - our unique collection of things that we can't stop thinking about for some reason. We are all moving through life with one dirty little secret in common: We're desperately trying to figure things out.

I've learned that writing clarifies my thinking.

It pours the mess inside my head onto the table so I can organize what's there and identify what's missing. More importantly, It exposes my thinking to other people who are great at helping figure things out.

So - I guess I need to write more.

I need to write to clarify the geeky things I think about so the geeky stuff I talk about becomes more interesting for geeks like you hear about.