Monday Mobile Musings
Here it is a Monday, I have worked the first day in my new job (and thank you so very much to all of you who have prayed for me in this time) and I got an eyeful of things towards mobility that both speak to affulence (not good) and ministry (potentially very good).
First I will speak to the affulence. I work in DC. Basically, there are the haves and the have-nots. This is the case in a lot of places in our society, but something that struck me today (and also Sunday in Baltimore) is how some people who look so well off can be so blind to the lack that someone else has. I really find myself asking if I really need a new set of headphones to listen to music on the Metro, if I cannot even life a wallet to purchase a meal, or give my jacket to someone sitting in the blazing sun. I like being mobile enabled, but getting outside of the box (or from in front of the computer) really shows to me that there is a world that is so needy that it would reject itself. Christ most definitely calls us to better, and that is one thing that my first day of work had me burdened with.
Then there was work itself. I was told today that about two minutes into the interview that they were impressed with me. I was shocked actaully, I was not sure what they needed (in specifics) but I know what I know (mobility, usability, and accessiblity - especially when it comes to websites), and so sitting with my managers at different points and hearing that they want to see what can happen with me and mobile devices in the long term was kind of neat. They WANT to create content for their customers that works on mobile devices, they just need a compelling reason to do so...
...and I sit and think that MMM just might be in the right place at the right time
I learn this Monday that God has this only-unique-weird-off centered way of ordering things just so that His truth would be everyone evident. I am in an organization that sees the mobile web and where it can go and have the people willing to take that chance. Just like us here at MMM, they see that the mobile landscape is a place where people can literally be changed in the palm of their hand. This is a good thing (all be it a full of hard work thing). And I am just expecting God to do something even better than my imagination has been racing all day.
First I will speak to the affulence. I work in DC. Basically, there are the haves and the have-nots. This is the case in a lot of places in our society, but something that struck me today (and also Sunday in Baltimore) is how some people who look so well off can be so blind to the lack that someone else has. I really find myself asking if I really need a new set of headphones to listen to music on the Metro, if I cannot even life a wallet to purchase a meal, or give my jacket to someone sitting in the blazing sun. I like being mobile enabled, but getting outside of the box (or from in front of the computer) really shows to me that there is a world that is so needy that it would reject itself. Christ most definitely calls us to better, and that is one thing that my first day of work had me burdened with.
Then there was work itself. I was told today that about two minutes into the interview that they were impressed with me. I was shocked actaully, I was not sure what they needed (in specifics) but I know what I know (mobility, usability, and accessiblity - especially when it comes to websites), and so sitting with my managers at different points and hearing that they want to see what can happen with me and mobile devices in the long term was kind of neat. They WANT to create content for their customers that works on mobile devices, they just need a compelling reason to do so...
...and I sit and think that MMM just might be in the right place at the right time
I learn this Monday that God has this only-unique-weird-off centered way of ordering things just so that His truth would be everyone evident. I am in an organization that sees the mobile web and where it can go and have the people willing to take that chance. Just like us here at MMM, they see that the mobile landscape is a place where people can literally be changed in the palm of their hand. This is a good thing (all be it a full of hard work thing). And I am just expecting God to do something even better than my imagination has been racing all day.
posted by Antoine @ 8/21/2006 09:38:00 PM
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