The End Is the Beginning Is the End

They say that blogs are so over and a contrarian in me wants to start one. I’ll begin with an announcement that I’m leaving Google.

I resigned three weeks ago and this is my last week organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible and useful. It’s been exciting to be part of Google’s huge scale of operations and to work with people way smarter than I am.

I’m returning to Finland for family reasons. My dad has a fatal disease called ALS, a neurological disease without a known cure. It became clear to me that I want to spend more time with him – now that we still have time together.

The possibility to spend more time with my special one, my family and my friends also delights me. On work related matters, I’ve some exciting plans. More about these later.

As I was a part of the original Jaiku team acquired by Google, some of you might be interested how my leave affects Jaiku work. Be assured that guys are continuing to work on it and my leave doesn’t affect schedules. I’ll stay an active participant in Jaiku – an awesome community of people.

This blog ain’t meant to be just an announcement channel, so I’ll start with a post on topic that has interested me for a while. It’s quite long, but I hope you like it.