As Jeff Atwood said recently in his entry on Choosing Your Own
I’ve spent the last six months staring at this page trying to figure
Sometimes choosing your own adventure means closing one door toopen another. And I have to close the door on Vertigo, however
reluctantly, to fully and wholeheartedly explore the alternatives.
But the way I look at it, if it’s not a little scary,
then it’s not the right choice. Failure is always an option.
Just s/Vertigo/Adobe/g and that’s my situation.
It was not an easy decision to make. Especially considering the people
I work with. In fact, I squarely blame my Flex teammates
Harish, Harpreet,
Annam, Ram, Jyoti and so many
others for making this such a difficult decision.
There are two incidents that have stuck in my mind for the past few
days. One is the recent internal tech summit we had at Noida where
Adobeans got to showcase each others’ technologies and ideas. Second,
the (internal) showcase applications that our team created using our
data visualization platform. I was simply blown away. The enthusiasm,
the energy and the ideas was so addictive.
It seems strange that I should leave all this behind. It seems
stranger that I have no clue where I’ll be six months from now. But
yeah, I have some ideas.
As Ray Bradbury said:
If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’dYou’ve got to jump off
the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.