I’m a big fan of jupyter notebooks and anaconda.  The other day, I was reading a blog post from Continuum/Anaconda founder Travis Oliphant about his decision to leave the company.  I found this quote particularly stirring:

“As a founder over 40 with modest means, I had a family of 6 children who relied on me. That family had teenage children who needed my attention and pre-school and elementary-school children that I could not simply leave only in the hands of my wife. I look back and sometimes wonder how we pulled it off. The truth probably lies in the time we borrowed: time from exercise, time from sleep, time from vacations, and time from family.”

Here, Travis seems to sum up some of the theme of this blog: my family and our creature comforts–our need for food, housing, clothing, etc.–have claim to much of my time.  And, of course, my time is bound by my mortality.  I have to creatively borrow against those claims to occasionally pursue other subjects I find interesting.  While I’m no founder of a great company like Anaconda, I’d like to think that if Travis was able to make something as great as he did despite his immense time commitments, maybe I can, too.