If I succeed in doing with FR what I have long envisioned--that it be the home base for my entire career--then if we fast-forward to ten years from now, I expect I'll look back and see that some of the angst I was feeling about this project during this initial period was misguided. Sure, I didn't know where I was going. But I kept moving forward until the destination started to come into focus, and then I did the work to move myself toward that destination. From the perspective of ten years from now, I bet this movement from unknown to known is going to look pretty inevitable. "Oh yeah," I'll say. "I just kept working until I got there." But I won't recall just how uncertain the whole thing felt to me at the time (and, I assume, looked and read to those of you who are here now).
So I thought it might be entertaining to remind myself. Though guessing what technology we'll be using ten years from now is a fraught exercise at best, I decided to assume that in ten years I'll still be using Google Calendar, so I opened up August, 2027, and made an appointment for myself on the 17th of that month to go back and read the pieces I put up here this week. When that finally happens, I promise I'll write a Refill about it. So go ahead and make an appointment to check back here ten years from now as well.