Kafka said something like: “The light in the tunnel could be a train”. But Kafka was a depressed anti-social poet, wasn’t he? I saw the NEEDISH-light today. On a secret location, somewhere in the mighty djungle called the World Wide Web we have hidden a link to the test-server where the first version of NEEDISH is being built. Digital guards are surrounding the area and only the wholy 7 (the team) is allowed to enter the future. Today I logged on and… I guess test-drove is a proper word. If NEEDISH was a car today, would have been the day when the anxious plant-manager takes the new model - convertible - on a mountain drive in the setting sun. Luckily NEEDISH is not a car. Had it been a car, my days would have been counted. It has no brakes. It has no wind-shield. It has no lights. It has no dark-haredish girl in the passenger seat. It has no real wheels. BUT it has an engine. And that engine works beautifully… After playing around for an hour I reluctantly came back to reality and I wrote the very first test-document ever. It started like this:

First of all, you have done a beautiful work guys… I just…

I just what? Unfortunately I can’t tell you. Being secret is not so much about protecting the idea… it’s creating that curiosity… and it’s about protecting the idea… did I say it wasn’t? Ha! I am paranoid. I see XISH-services in my dreams. I hear them on the streets. I smell them when I close my eyes. But so far we are IT as we know it. Competitors exist. They are cute. They have visions. But they don’t have Chileans working in development. So, everyone lets give it away for Chile, that tall and skinny and precious little secret hiding behind the Andes. I see a prosperous future for such a great place to live… at least until global warming creates energy-crises and Argentina stops selling Bolivian gas to Chile. But hey, who am I to be predicting the future, I am only a part of the team that will change the way we felt about Service. Real global service.

Halleluish, Oskar