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Someone asked me, a few weeks ago, what we’re up to with Common Kitchen. We’ve been talking to people about this for several months now, but we’ve also been finishing up graduate school, so Common Kitchen work has largely taken the form of procrastination from things like grading papers. (Given a choice between grading thirty-six written assignments on lambda calculus and configuring a development server, I will pick the server every time.)
I answered, with a straight face, “We’re trying to find our backside with both hands.”
I didn’t mean, of course, that we don’t know what we’re doing. We managed to convince the judges of the Tufts Business Plan contest that we were worthy of a finalist spot, after all, and Noah and I have put enough pages on the web that we’re familiar with that process. In general, however, I’ve done so in the context of a steady job. Building a website while also attempting to invent a company out of thin air significantly raises the degree of difficulty. The “to-do” lists coil in on themselves like fractal designs, and they involve things, like talking to lawyers, which are not taught in software engineering classes.
It’s terrifying, but it’s also exciting. And it’s that combination which has me up at 1 AM, the night after our “official” first full day of work, writing a blog post, because I can’t sleep.
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