what friends are for
My friend Jeremy Tolbert has always been a something of a visionary. He was the guy who always saw a little farther down the road than the rest of us, and came up with these amazing plans for businesses or technologies that would revolutionize the world. I will admit to having disparaged some of his ideas as outlandish or impossible from time to time, but he worked persistently to implement or create some of those ideas in spite of critics like his former roommate, and had a moderate degree of success.
Where he did not always succeed, his ideas sometimes did.
Somebody would eventually come up with a "massively multiplayer online roleplaying game", or a social networking system worth billions, or a new way to look at DNA expression that better explained the system, and filled people's imagination and other more fiscal needs.
It was no surprise that he would eventually turn to writing. He has a few short stories published here and there in magazines of speculative fiction, and at one time or another has run such a magazine himself. Yesterday, he released his "intensely personal story of death, Led Zeppelin, and how families cope with death, Babe, I am Going to Leave You" as a free creative-commons tale on the internet. I think that maybe you ought to read it. And while you are at it, you might as well read one or two other things he has written. He is a talented and creative guy, and I'd hate for you to miss out.