Kissing Your Elbow

How does one start? How do you figure out what you truly want? An old friend of mine once told me that understanding parts of your own heart was as hard as kissing the point on your elbow -- you just can't get far enough away to do it properly. (Try it.)

Still, you gotta start somewhere, so here's how I'm thinking about the problem.

Hello, My Name is Inigo Montoya.

My name is Mark. As of this writing I am 45 years old. I am married and have two children. I live in Atlanta and I have been a Product Manager in the Internet Technology space since, well, since the Internet really mattered. If you don't know what a Product Manager is, don't worry about it. Most people don't. My wife still has only the vaguest idea of what I do every day. Suffice it to say we are an important part of the process that creates all the hardware and software you rely on today and most people don't fully appreciate Product Management until it's no longer there (you know who you are, Engineering.) No, I’m not bitter about it.