A Blurberastic Day

My first day at Blurb.com was yesterday and the only reason I didn’t post the traditional “My First Day At Work” entry was that my brain was still spinning in loops by the time I got home. The amount of data that was thrown at my tiny little brain would make any average processor explode. But I got home after a brisk 30-minute walk and to my delight, the Missus had prepared a fantastic Cheese & Shrimp Stuffed Poblano Pepper w/ a Red Bell Pepper Sauce. That fab dish and a few glasses of Villa Antinori had me knocked out by 9pm. I slept like a baby!

The good night sleep helped me digest all the new acronyms, the new impressions and all the new challenges. But man, what a fresh breath of air my new work life is turning out to be. Words like disruptive, uncharted territory, challenges, opportunities, passion, commitment and smart people is getting a complete new meaning. There is something insanely great and real about being back at a start-up with a business model.

To coolest thing is that for the first time in my career it’s fairly easy to explain what I do: I’m the people’s publisher. Anyone can publish a book with us. User generated content doesn’t only need to be hosted on the web, it can also result in very tactile real books. It’s the essence of technology: to make the unimaginable possible.

It’s not web 2.0 but soo web 3.0. It’s going beyond all the talk of Ajax, Ruby, social media et cetera and just focus on disrupting one of the oldest monopolies in the world: the distribution of free speech. Gutenberg would have been proud. He would have fit right in at Blurb.com.