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It feels that my form of maps are becoming a living thing on their own. No putting this genie back in the bottle. The ideas of mapping a competitive landscape and understanding context seem to have taken flight. It has a chance of outliving & outgrowing me. Achievement unlocked.
There is nothing better in life than watching something you have created start to outgrow yourself and knowing one day, it'll be teaching you lessons that you didn't even think of. The world of open source and creative commons are magical. I am truly grateful and happy.
The best bit is yet to come. The time when someone creates a better map and shows me all the places where I went wrong. At that point it's evolving and mapping will be truly alive.
The worst bit is also yet to come. That moment when some idiotic management consultancy colours a bit of the map (the equivalent of green for grass) and pretends they've invented something amazingly new and it shouldn't be covered by creative commons share alike ...
... which of course will lead to others claiming that other ridiculously trivial ideas (the equivalent of a better green for grass or blue for a river) are also a sign of their mighty intellectual prowess and hence highly innovative. The desire for rent seeking is strong in some.
Still, we will cross those bridges when we come to them. It's just heartening to see how it is growing, how people are using it and how people are keeping with the spirt of it being open. What more could you ask for.
