Tonight will include at least 10 minutes of pure stream of consciousness writing on my Dell Studio 1535. Over the last few months, the writing process has come to the forefront of consideration. More or less (for better or worse), the process of writing a book or an article from start to finish without any deviations remains an illusory construct. From time to time, the spark that generates outstanding prose just occurs. Inspiration has always seemed to be a funny and fleeting thing. Maybe this sentence will help transition this think piece away from process and center the think piece on idea cultivation. Amazon launched the Kindle Fire without building out enough games. Building a forked version of Android that has a proprietary application market limits the number of available games significantly. Amazon seems to be primarily focused on generating revenue.

The people are consuming news in different ways. News aggregators are centralizing content. In some ways, the art of writing a good briefing document has faded away. Both reporters and bloggers have focused on either directly reporting facts or writing opinion pieces. Briefing documents bring history, context, and depth to the subject. News cycles are getting faster and faster. At some point, the entire concept of the news cycle will fade into the news stream. With any news stream history inevitably fades away as waves of modernity push back the sands of the moment. Streaming news tends to over supply the market. After a few years of oversupplied streaming news, the degree of information saturation within society will be overwhelming. Should society remain focused on a series of key issues? How does one concept remain central to the process with wave after wave of ideas setting agendas that do not share a common purpose?

Over the course of the last few days the book writing experience has had a few ups and downs. I’m having a hard time attacking the project with the same single minded purpose I was capable of mustering when I was younger.

I just finished specking out eight chapters of content with subsections. Over the course of the next few days/weeks, I will be writing a series of essays based on the chapters/subsections. The moral of the story involves a long awaited return to book writing mode.

Writing styles are like fingerprints. Sometimes the form, function, structure, and assumptions of a writer might change, but the underlying fingerprints remain. Even a good ghostwriter leaves echoes. In the end, written prose can be a fingerprint that touches history. Art can stand the test of time. Written prose can last for generations. At some point in the future, prose will become almost permanent, but the ability to store prose will become finite and tightly controlled.

Mathematics provides the central pillar of an evolved civilization. Without question, the modern education system in the United State has favored social sciences over pure mathematics. An entire generation of American society lacks a basic understanding of fundamental math skills beyond descriptive inquiry and general calculations. Maybe mathematics will make a comeback during the next decade. The ability to acquire information online could change the relationship between the public and mathematics knowledge.

Yes: I have been reading the Economist article, “Climbing Mount Publishable.”

The HTC EVO still lacks a functional word document editing platform. Microsoft seems to avoid developing applications for the android environment. Without any clear leader in the office style productivity arena a unique opportunity exists in the marketplace. A few notepad interfaces exist, but the overall grammar and spelling auditing remains very limited.

The weekend is for writing like the work week is for working…

Time seems to changes things in ways that become predictable.

Maybe now would be the time for a change or at least a productivity increase.

Most of yesterday was spent working on converting a complete quantitative dissertation into journal articles. At this point in the process the results are either going to be broken into three distinct articles or one very complete article. Naturally, the right thing to do would involve building one meaningful article instead of splitting the results into a series of articles. The process needs to be completed before the results become stale and outdated.

At some level the research process remains paramount.

Reporting the results of the research process defines the difference between personal inquiry and academic endeavors.