The number of readers and inbound links for this blog will probably double this week (which isn’t saying much), so it’s probably time for an update.

First, though, a preface: if you’ll be in Orlando for BarCamp or Stanford for Startup School, drop me a line(direct e-mail link).

As of one week ago, I had just gathered the courage to tell my family that I’d be working freelance in Atlanta after I got my degree (in August). The future has been looming large for a long time, and it felt better to make an executive decision and start shopping it around than simply maintain the que-sera-sera attitude I’d been nervously holding out to everyone who asked up to that point.

Making one choice for independence seems to start a cascade of successively more challenging and more tempting possibilities. Knowing that I wanted to work for myself was a certainty; getting there would take a little more thought (since my freelancing so far has not been fabulously lucrative). But really, honestly starting a company, with a co-founder and all the legal shenanigans required to get legit: that was a long-shot.

Then I got pitched by a friend on an idea that was just too outstanding to pass up. Then, that very same night, I was notified that I was accepted to Startup School. I just booked the flight to San Jose. Come Wednesday, we’ll be in the pool with a wide range of other brilliant startups, looking for seed capital and hoping to get set up in a startup hub where we can grow this thing into something valuable and excellent.

What does that look like? I don’t know. But I do know that things are moving along fast enough at this point that I won’t have time to slow down and think about it before it’s too late.

And that’s an attractive prospect.