I’ve recently come across this beautiful quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson (from his 1841 Over-soul essay):

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

It perfectly describes my personal philosophy and theology, and not only, because it also highlights the whole reason for my current and past jobs within the Linked Data / Semantic Web sphere, and points towards my continued interest to a particular project of mine.

Progressing a career is entirely dependent on:

• what you know,
• who you know,
• and how you utilise (in an ethical way!) , your knowledge/skill and your network/circles - this involves multi-directional communications, friendliness within community, truth/honesty and charity/relief

This week I will be exploring my business options and enhancing my skills in several technical and professional aspects, in order to help my fellow human and in order to continue to perfect myself.

As some of you may know, I have been looking for new career opportunities (for the past few weeks now), and not much has appeared yet, I have had some interest but nothing concrete so far. This is quite unfortunate really, my knowledge and my skill are ready and waiting to be snapped up by whoever wants to utilise them. So what is going wrong, perhaps it is the unfortunate state of the current economic playing field, perhaps I’m doing something wrong in my search for my next career steps, perhaps I’m not ethically utilising my knowledge/kill and my network/circles in the correct manner, perhaps I need to broaden my search space.

Please do send me a email, just to reaffirm our connection, and maybe we can explore potential avenues, or maybe we can just have a short conversation. My LinkedIn Profile has lots of detail about my skills, knowledge and experience, so please do have a look.

• My email address is: danieljohnlewis [at] gmail [dot] com
• My LinkedIn account is at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieljohnlewis (please do feel free to request a connection)
• My skype is: daniel.lewis