Richard, thank you for the thoughtful comments. I don’t feel like I’m “retiring” as much as I feel like I managed to write myself into as rut – albeit an interesting one and one where a wonderful community of other folks were there with me.

I felt like I was self-referring too often – “As I said in 2004, bblablabla…” – and that I need to reboot my own thinking – and that I weasn’t ready to do it in public in front of the audience and partners who were very comfortable with my thinking as-it-is.

And that was initially depressing to me. Then I realized that part of my original motivation for blogging was to figure things out for myself, and that – to an extent – maybe I’ve done so.

So I’m going to unplug for a bit, and mull over where I want to stand to figure out in public what to do with that ‘figured out’ thinking.

Maybe a book (pamphlet more likely), maybe another blog…I don’t know.

I do know I’m not done with the world, and it appears not to be done with me either.

I’ll have another comment on some of the upthread comments in a bit…

Marc