He left me free to work on whatever aspect I liked, on the condition that it led to publishable results with me and T.C. Merigan as co-authors.
"I saw certain aspects I liked and the potential of the team," he said on Saturday, pausing before a rueful chuckle.
Some of the aspects I like most are the interdisciplinary approach, team work, the real-life application, and being in an innovative field learning valuable job skills.
This gives the narrative a documentary aspect, which I like a lot.
One aspect I really like is the realtime feel of the app; lots of nice use of Ajax on the UI side and a Facebook-esque activity stream to track updates from team members.
One last aspect I would like to note here, again one I grew up with that got lost during the unification to West Germany: Here in the U.S., much is achieved because people voluntarily put themselves and their time behind the cause.
An aspect I'd like to expand on is the national security implications that needs to be addressed by leadership in the Department of Defense and on an individual level, by each of us.
Evernote, which has its own appreciation for the analogue aspects of life — "I like paper things, and I like making them better and relevant," Libin told me yesterday — believes that even if that human involvement may have been necessary even two years ago, these days digitizing simply works better.
Then there's the carer aspect of my personality; I like to look after people, I like to try and fix situations, connect people to services that will help them.
There is hardly a "typical" day for a science translator, an aspect of the business I like.
