My name is Rod Furlan. I am a Quant, Software Engineer and a Singularity University Alumnus.
I just started working on an new prototype that will be demonstrated in a couple of months at the ███████████ ██████████. I have a a bunch of interesting problems to solve so I couldn’t be happier.
It is basically a ██████ that will allow the user to ████████ ████ █████ █████████ without ███████ ████ █ █████ ████. It is going to be like ███████████ for the masses.
Stay tuned for cryptic updates that might not make any sense 
I am 29 and I am a compulsive builder. It isn’t like I want to build things, I simply have to because otherwise they consume me. Considering that I can envision way more than I can actually work on I find myself always having to give up ideas for the sake of completing projects already underway.
Once I am done, I don’t feel like I have any time to spare to enjoy success. Off I am to the next project.
To be honest, I feel like the journey is more important than the destination. Profits are nothing but a side-effect of a job well done.
My .02
Originally posted as a comment by rfurlan on Howard Lindzon using Disqus.
My latest project just went live. If you love Twitter as much as I do, I am sure you will love TwitZap too:
“TwitZap is a new way to use Twitter. It lets you slice Twitter into realtime streams of stuff that matters to you. On top of that, TwitZap users can tweet each other in real-time using our Twitter accelerator technology even while Twitter is down.”
It is basically a web-based, real-time Twitter client + search monitor. Think TweetDeck without the install – making it possible to use it anywhere, anytime.
Its unique advantage is that communication between TwitZap users is instantaneous – tweets are delivered in less than 800ms from end-to-end even when Twitter is slow or down.
All tweets are still relayed to Twitter as soon as possible. You can even see other users that are on the same channels as you – which is pretty cool and incentivize instant interactions.
This morning, TwiZap got featured on Mashable and was the #1 trending topic on twitter search. Not bad for two weeks of work
However, this is probably going to be my last web project for a while. While it is incredibly gratifying to build something the whole world can use, web development is just not challenging enough to keep me excited about it.
I just feel like it is just too much busy-work for my taste, with very few really interesting problems to solve.
Mikey, 
McLarty 2:42 pm on February 8, 2009 Permalink
I’ll take 1000 contracts of that at $0.02! haha. I find myself in the exact same boat. I got laid off…now I’m like, BAM: TONS OF TIME…which way do I sprint first?
Rod Furlan 7:39 pm on February 8, 2009 Permalink
Deciding on what to do next is so hard sometimes. Make sure you are excited about whatever you choose to do next. Life is too short to work on things you don’t care about
Mikey 3:51 pm on March 4, 2009 Permalink
I like that quote you said: I feel like the journey is more important than the destination. Profits are nothing but a side-effect of a job well done. Very inspirational