Last day at Adobe

As Jeff Atwood said recently in his entry on Choosing Your Own
Adventure:

I’ve spent the last six months staring at this page trying to figure
out what to do. With some trepidation, I’m now turning to page 10.
Thursday will be my last day at Vertigo. I will sorely miss the
camaraderie and the many close personal friends I’ve made at
Vertigo. Vertigo remains a fantastic place to work.

Sometimes choosing your own adventure means closing one door to
open another. And I have to close the door on Vertigo, however
reluctantly, to fully and wholeheartedly explore the alternatives.
It would be unfair to Vertigo and to myself to do anything less. I’m
not sure what exactly lies on page 10. I won’t lie to you. It’s
scary to trade the security of a safe, salaried job for the
unknowns. 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
Sreenivas,
Sameer,
Raghu,
Harish, Harpreet,
Kaashif,
Anirudh,
Sujit,
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’d
never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be
cynical: “It’s gonna go wrong.” Or “She’s going to hurt me.” Or,
“I’ve had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore …” Well,
that’s nonsense. You’re going to miss life. You’ve got to jump off
the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.