About

Hi, I’m Michael Doan. I’ve been on the web since 2001. This website is a collection of things I find interesting on the the interweb and it’s also where my writing lives.

I am an audit partner at WilsonMorgan LLP, a CPA firm based in Irvine, California. You can find my full professional profile at LinkedIn. When I’m not working, I enjoy spending time with my family and photography. I’m a technophile and I’m seeking help.

Brief History

Over the years I’ve posted my writing to doan.ws and michaeldoan.com, and pictures to viewfromnowhere.com. I’ve taken these sites down and up them back up countless of times. Each time I put them back up, I would start fresh. There are archives, somewhere, on a external hard drive. Maybe one day, maybe, I’ll put it all up in one place.

Why This is Here

I like to share the things I find on the interweb because sharing ideas opens up so many possibilities. I also like to share my ideas so I write. Ideas that are not shared are worthless. Ideas that are shared can ignite the imagination and create a spark of motivation. Ideas that are acted upon create some kind of value (sometimes). Perhaps the over-riding reason that I write is summed up in this passage from Ralph Wald Emerson’s essay, Self-Reliance:

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

So I write.