Occam's Razor

Today, I just had a marathon argument with my CEO, on the technology vision and product road map. Not that this is new to me, but at the end of it, convincing every one just drains out your entire energy and it becomes almost impossible to finish off the coding tasks that are piling up at an incredible pace.

Information Overload all around certainly brings with it an overwhelming set of options to filter and details to pay attention to. But this alone does not merit that people just give up reasoned decisions. There will always be multiple ways to skin a cat, and litte time to find the right knife, but that is where "Human Reasoning and Empirical Rules" help you sift through, to get to the most appropriate way of achieving the desired result.

While its difficult to model all the variables into the microcosm of your product offering, it would be pertinent to model atleast the minimum needed according to Occam's Razor. And any behaviour that we percieve naturally, I think can be modelled with a finite set of variables, provided we identify the core elements around which the others, position themselves. But at every place the Senior Leadership tends to think otherwise, and wants a quick solution. Passion is important in a startup, but it should not warrant anyone to be impulsive. Attention to detail is equally important to build a successful company. Having convinced my CEO to incorporate the right blend of innovation, and time to market, I have invited more work for myself.

I also made a conscious decision to keep work/professional matter outside this blog, but given the need of the hour, I have to find another blog space to capture, categorize, and build a taxonomy of the ideas that are floating in the fabric of my mind. Ideas are ephemeral, blog them for posterity. (nice, i like this statement that my mind just spewed out)

Here are the options I am currently weighing.

1. I thought about the space at 360 that I recently created, but there I reveal my true identity, which is not suitable for professional blogs. ( I don't want to be liable for conflict of interest issues, nor do I want to answer breaches of confidentiality etc)

2. So should I opt for another space in Blogger itself ?, or are there other blog sites that provide richer features to articulate my ideas.

3. Since those daily updates will comprise a heavy doze of Intellectual Property, I need more control and flexibilty to play with the content.

I need to wrap this up by the weekend. Any suggestions are welcome.