Drunken Blog is running an interview with Wil Shipley, founder of The Omni Group and more recently Delicious Monster. While not exactly ground-breaking, Wil does have some interesting insights into starting software shops, and reasons to develop for Mac OS X. Most interesting to me was the revelation that Wil suffers from deals with chronic depression and agorophobia. Huh, I thought, that sounds familiar. I really liked his description of depressive episodes, though:
Depression is a sucky thing to deal with because it doesn’t have much to do with how you’re doing in life. I feel ungrateful every time I get sad, because in general my life really isn’t too hard. I can say to myself, “Look, you’ve proven that you don’t produce enough seratonin, you don’t have to feel guilty for the tricks your brain is playing on you,” but I still feel like a spoiled child.
Yeah, that’s about it—sometimes the psuedo-guilt is almost as bad as the “30 wet blankets”. Almost.
