Welcome to Blake's World!

After finishing my Master’s and leaving academia for the “Corporate World”, I have come to miss a few things that I always took for granted: free time and opportunities to write stuff. Yes mom and dad, I said it, I miss all that free time and I miss writing (who would’ve thunk it?). I have accepted the fact that my time is now more valuable because I am employed to produce output rather than invest in human capital, but I am not very comfortable with the strain that this shortage of free time has put on my communication with friends and family. Nevertheless, thanks to innovation, I can simultaneously solve both of these problems with the one and only Blake’s World blog! Thankfully you, the reader, are technologically savvy enough to tap in to the worldwide digital network of computing resources that I like to call “the internet” and navigate down to my little page on Google Blogspot.

I intend to use this space to broadcast updates from Raleigh as well as for publishing my random ideas and essays on an ad-hoc basis. I believe in free speech, so if you are offended by something that I write or if you genuinely agree with one of my ideas then feel free to express yourself in the comments. You can even respond randomly if that suits your fancy! I do not censor so there is no guarantee that the content of this blog will always be G-rated, but you should at least trust that I try and remain classy and respectful in the expression of my ideas.

I hope that you will all enjoy participating in the blog and I will do my best to remain interesting. If you need to contact me, my email is blake.shiver@gmail.com and I welcome any feedback or suggestions that you may have. I do ask that you keep this email off of forward lists because by the time you have seen it, I have probably seen it twice!  You can also find me on Twitter @blakeshiver, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Thanks for stopping by and please add this page to your favorites so that you can keep up with us here in Raleigh!