Jim sat in his favorite worn leather chair and gazed outside, content. By all rights he should be exhausted, still in bed from the hours and days of work he had been putting himself through, but he wasn’t. Jim was content.
For the last 52 hours straight, Jim had been working on a new project and he couldn’t stop. Wouldn’t stop. Life was in focus now and it was at times like these that one capitalized.
Don’t think about how or why. Don’t wonder how long the moment will last. Just stay in it! For even the slightest distraction could, might, derail the mindset, the magic, the inspiration.
Whatever it was, Jim went with it. He had been sleeping on a couch in his office for the past day or two capitalizing on the momentum of the last few days. But, it was good to be home again.
So now he sat in his chair at 6 in the morning. It was still dark outside and he drank a cup of coffee. His head spun from excitement, exhaustion, from glee…
It had been a very long time since Jim had been so engaged in something like SKARKRAFT. As a child, sure, he had the concentration of a macintosh computer and if he was working a problem or otherwise involved, it was impossible for anyone to pierce the armored cloud of his thoughts. The house could be on fire around him and he wouldn’t have noticed.
To call Jim motivated didn’t seem to describe him fully. He was motivated, but more. He was also driven. He had the ability to keep moving forward never giving up. But, what made him dangerous was his obsession and his relentless pursuit of his goals. In another life he would have made a fairly good mad scientist or archvillain were he not balanced by his own sense of what-was-right.
At a young 14, Jim would spend hours locked away in his own mind programming in DOS reveling in syntax and logic telling a computer what to do. He was untouchable during these moments and undisturbable, impossible to distract. It had indeed been a long time since Jim had found that state of ironclad concentration from his youth, such was the breakthrough he had.
The new SK8 gen(3) was finally coming to fruition. The last few tests went flawlessly and AI integration was close. Really close. The AI part of the project was ready and beta tests of the the halo confirmed viability of the program.
Soon…
