The poets talk about life as a journey. But that just makes me wonder - in what space are we traveling? What metric can we use to assess distances? What sort of path-finding algorithm should we use? Will there be a giant ball of metaphorical twine along the way? When I was asked to write a bit about my journey, I figured it would be easy; I'm the world's leading expert after all. However, after several attempts, I could never get it to fit into any sort of particularly compelling narrative. It felt like a just-so … [Read more...] about If that’s where you want to end up, I wouldn’t start here