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title: "2008: We Rise"
date: 2008-01-08T18:55:06Z
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![](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/168068326_bd9c269adc.jpg?v=0)

So its the New Year and time to look both forward and back. For an understanding of the RedMonk psyche you need look no further than Stephen’s [roundup of 2007](http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/02/2007-the-year-in-review-from-macro-to-micro/).

> Professionally, I’m content with the year. _We didn’t blow up_, and neither I nor RedMonk was perfect, but we continue to have happy customers, a brilliant community, and the areas on the report card that got marked “Needs Improvement” should see some.

Dude. In order to blow up you need to take some _risks_. In 2008 I would like to take more of them, to work on the upside. In order to do that I, for one, will need to be a little more [busy and a little less bursty](http://www.amazon.com/Connect-Worker-Dailys-Guide-Working/dp/0470223987). To that end we’re bringing in some part-time admin support. Excellent. Now RedMonk can get evil…

picture courtesy of [cwf](http://www.flickr.com/photos/80482369@N00/), under CreativeCommons Attribution 2.0 license. Looks like a Solstice pic, no? Of course Winter is an Equinox, but that’s another matter.