Time is asymetric in a startup. The future, and deadlines, come at you at a blinding pace while the past stretches behind you punctuated by releases, launches, hirings and meetings.

Last week this was driven home when we retired the first AppLogic grid that saw the light of day outside engineering.
For 18 months my demo grid, comprised of a few servers at RackForce was the first grid hundreds of customers experienced - most via WebEx.

Time marches on . . .