Jackie Danicki

I’ve been really bad about keeping up on correspondence with people for the last, oh, month or two. So I’m going to tread carefully and update a bit about what’s going on in my world. (I have revised my rules about what I disclose about my personal life online - hence much less specific talk about myself here. No great loss to anybody, for sure.)

1) I am very busy with all things Rackup-related. The excitement of building an early stage start-up is incredibly, gloriously all-consuming. At any time of day, if you stop me and ask me what I’m thinking about, it will be Rackup. I love this. (I’m also very fortunate to work with a team that makes me laugh and think in equal measure. It’s a very Qik-like team in that respect.)

2) It’s sort of exhausting to live in this mode, fun as it is. Combine this with the time change, where it’s dark by 5PM, and I don’t have a lot left to give other people at the end of the day. The exception is people I know very well, with whom I feel comfortable enough to hang out in my pajamas. Thank God for such loved ones.

3) I am seriously in love with my new home. I scored a wonderful cottage in what may be my favorite neighborhood outside of New York City. The location is perfect - I’m equidistant from downtown Menlo Park and downtown Palo Alto, and I’m surrounded by the closest thing to normality that one can find in Silicon Valley. I even spotted kids playing in the street last weekend!

4) I miss my place in New York much less as a result of how much I love it here, yet I do still miss it. But I’m lucky to have that place, so I’m just going to shut my mouth about that.

5) Regarding that lack of communication with people: I feel bad about it, but not as bad as I would have six months ago. It won’t be like this forever, and I have a lot on my plate (more than I will write about here). I think people mostly understand that. When they don’t, they tell me and we sort it out.

Does this sound self-important? Like, “Gosh, I matter so much to so many people that I need to write an update on my website about what I’m doing and how hard it is to write an email or return a phone call!” I don’t mean it that way, and I think the people who know me also know that. What’s hard is that a lot of people who don’t know me are reading here (checking out one’s blog stats for the first time in a few years can be quite a revelation). I like that when I’m writing about ideas, not so much when I’m writing about myself. Welcome to life online in 2009, right?

Bottom line: Life is just as it’s supposed to be.

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