I did consider using the trope of Total Recall in a pitch deck (a presentation to raise finance for this SALTT project) but owing to time limits, it didnt make the cut. Total Recall is an old school Arnie film Based on the 1966 short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Arnie plays a builder who goes to the Rekall agency for some entertainment and low and behold, he turns out to be some Martian secret agent who has had his memories blanked – or is he? The film would screw with your mind if it wasnt such a cheesy 80s SciFi flick.
I used the metaphor for when I started to realise what SALTT was actually about. SALTT came as an attempt to shift my life from empty, soul draining tedium to finding things that gave me a personal sense of accomplishment – to get my life in order a bit. It was when I considered that there might be others like me that might benefit from what I was doing ,that I had a bit of a wake up call.
My life-long aspiration was to be a tech founder. Since my friend’s mother, a matths teacher at the first school in my homewown to get a computer, brought a Commadore PET home at weekends for us to mess with – I wanted to to tech.
I kept trying but circumstances burried that aspiration in a dark pit of dispear. To be honest, just wanted to pass out and never regain consiousness – hardly self-actualising. Yet, as I started to revive, it clicked. Maybe I could help myself and help others also through the medium of digital technology. I remembered who I was; I was a computer geek and an entrepreneaur – it was then that I went into Total Recall. A roller-coaster ride for sure, but just over a year later, from utter apathy, I’m restless, wanting to bring SALTT to market – something has clearly changed in me – what?
More to the point, what am I trying to say in this blog post that might provide some hope to those who have found themselves in somewhat of a mess. I guess I’m trying to say, even if it sounds Disney sickenting, ‘remember who you truly are’. No, let us dive futher
I hit upon writing this post because I have just been thunderstruck again by the principle of Total Recall.
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