Plans

There is an old joke:

Q: How do you make God laugh?
A: Tell him your plans.

While I appreciate the world's ability to bring interesting work to my doorstep, it does come at a price.  Today the price is Transmutable (the company) as an active enterprise.

In the last year I have learned many lessons about business, software, solitude, and friendship.  I started a company, wrote a software product from scratch, found distribution and sales channels, and realized that working alone all day is not a long term option for me.  At the moment of realization of that last lesson, an opportunity to take a short term contract with my old lab cohorts popped up.  Now that short contract has turned into a long term job.

So, I have placed Transmutable (the company) in suspended animation and I have changed the direction of Transmutable (the software development effort) towards the creation of a venue for non-commercial work in locative media.

The only visible, short term changes are minor edits to the Transmutable web site, with a notice about the change in licensing for future versions of 93 Photo Street and a link to the source repository.

I am as certain that I will start another company at some point as I am certain that I have more locative applications in me.  God (sic) won't tell me his (sic) plans, so in the mean time I'll keep getting things done and we'll see how it turns out.