But I thought, let me take inventory anyway. So, I listed my “assets” and my “recipients”. I included my “anticipated debts” and “non-tangible assets”. It was fun. I then went into a “directives” area, where I would instruct the estate to take on “projects” and my project was to allocate an amount to get a Clojure consulting company or person to do the following.
- Create a basic Java-based plug-in for Eclipse that allows for creating Eclipse plug-ins in Clojure… even if it means re-packaging all of Eclipse RCP to do that.
- Use that to re-create and re-write the above in Clojure, i.e. create a plug-in creating RCP written in Clojure that can help you create plug-ins for Eclipse.
- Extend the improvements process of the above to a web-framework, where all your changes are shared and you can subscribe to other people’s changes.
My thinking was, if I’m going to die now, and this document is going to carryout my will and intentions, then I’m going to *spend* whatever money I have left to fund a project to do something I care about… if I cannot do it myself.
But then I remembered that when I’m dead, I’m dead! It won’t matter what I have achieved or not achieved. So the epiphany was that this is a reiteration of a project to do in my life (for my death, maybe) not after my death. So, it was nice to be clear that given a wonderful and a fulfilled and fulfilling life, I’d like to spend some time doing this… as a choice, from a place of choice because I want to not because I have to or need to.
I think I’d like that very much.