One of my SaneBox engineers (no names to protect the guilty) just sent me this quote:

Every Program attempts to expand until it can read mail.

Those programs that cannot so expand are replaced by ones that can.

— Third Law of Software Envelopment

Hmmm… I’m thinking this is a little push back on the latest round of production tickets.  

Maybe it’s time to do some self-reflection?

Has my professional transition gone astray?

For many years, I was the CTO/Founder where I saw my job as being the balanced voice of reason in emotional conversations about new product features.  My current position is President/Founder/CTO/customer service exec/chief bottle washer/chief evangelist.  What would old-me think of new-me?

For those in-the-know, this is all about added functionality to http://sanebox.com new email digest that gets delivered directly to your INBOX and allows you to live in your immaculately clean INBOX and continue to efficiently stay on top of all your email.  No other SaneBox feature has elicited such an emotional upsurge in “love letters” from users and requests for enhancements.

Anybody want to side with old-me?  I think that guy was a kill-joy.  I’m thinking of going into flickr and drawing virtual mustaches on all his pictures.