I kick off a lot of big projects, from novels to video games to hare-brained website plots, but so much of that is stuff that lacks the weight of officialness. In many ways, they are little more than public sandboxes that, if substantial interest was generated, could be elevated but for the most part are just me making things to play and practice and learn.

Yesterday I made something much more official.

Yesterday I incorporated.

There are a lot of reasons, but it really turned out to be a bit of chicken and egg problem. I want to get some contract work, I’m actively bidding on contract work, I hope I can get some contract work, but I can’t get contract work until I have a company, tax number, business license, etc. On the other hand, I don’t need to be a corporation until I get work and there is a bunch of expense and work in making one.

I spent a couple days mulling this problem and came to the obvious conclusion that the risks of missing an opportunity because I dragged my feet were much greater than the risks of investing time and money ahead of the problem itself.

Thus, as of yesterday, I am the sole director and lone employee of the newly formed 8r4d Consulting Ltd., an official (and soon to be fully licensed) corporate business in the province of Albert providing digital, web, and business services.

Very official. Literally.

And whatever happens next in terms of my work it will almost certainly be tangled up in this new legal entity, probably for the rest of my career.  Stay tuned.