Harold Davis: History & Employment
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History
The year I graduated from Law School, I had an exhibit of my photographs.
I decided that photography was much more fun than law. A few years later,
I started a publishing business, Wilderness Studio, Inc., using my photographs.
I needed a software inventory system for the business, and couldn't find one that
worked for for the business, so I wrote one.
At about this time, I got dropped off by bush plane, and walked
solo across the Brooks Range in Northern Alaska. I made it out, over mountains,
across rivers, and up valleys, to an Inuit village named
Anatuvik -- "place where many caribou shit." But that's another story.
A lot of artists asked me how the publishing business worked. I got tired
of answering questions, so I wrote an article on the topic to hand out.
A publisher saw the article and asked me to expand it into a book. From the experience, I learned
how to write non-fiction books.
As time went along, I began to spend more time on software development and consulting than
on photography or publishing. I wrote books about programming. The Web came
along, which I thought was great because it combined my interest in
software with visual design.
We got out of New York City and moved to a farm in rural Vermont.
The farm was nice, but too much snow wasn't. I maintained our Web server
over a POTS line up the mountain, leaping up in the night when it
went down.
Rural life was too isolating, and
I wanted the opportunity for more exciting work. We bought a house and moved
to Berkeley, CA in 1997.
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Employment
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