the woes of too many interests

Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 11:04AM

By Eric Richardson

I really need to narrow myself down and actually focus on something instead of letting my projects go with my interests. In the last couple weeks I've messed around with many things, and mastered none of them. Projects I've been playing around with lately: mysql over ssh port forwarding, restricting an ssh user to scp into certain directories, communicating with smart cards, learning C, learning XSLT, and writing WAP applications. I'm sure there's more than I'm just forgetting.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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