> You know, if we were in a large office right now, we'd be so tied
> up in bullshit unproductive meetings that we wouldn't have time to sit
> around and philosophize about such matters, and we'd be taking our
> PowerBooks home so to get some peace and quiet so we could get some work
> done.
thanks for reminding me.. ;-)
i'm currently regretting the financial necessities that made me ignore my
better instincts and take a salary gig with a media corporation. in
one, terse sentence, you've summed up pretty much every single day i've
been through for the last six months.
officially, i signed on as a programmer, and in the period between august
'95 and january '98, there probably wasn't a single period of 72
consecutive hours when i didn't write some kind of code. now that i'm
getting paid to program (and manage an office full of fresh young geeks..
and write operational plans for a 168-domain network migration.. and
forbear from killing people when i hear the words "speed to market"),
i haven't had enough uninterrupted time to write anything in the last
four months.
my sense of honor will probably keep me here 'til the end of the year.. by
that time, the rest of the crew whould be trained in enough good habits
that they can cope with the day-to-day demands.. but at that point, i'm
gonna be back hitting the bricks.
something i've been meaning to do, but haven't really started due to the
standard gumption traps, is write and post a series of articles about the
crap i'm having to wade through day by day. one of the most popular
selling points of the WC list is that it's a bit like the Rue de Whatever
in Paris.. if you wait long enough, you can eventually find a
well-reasoned discussion on the best and most practical ways to do just
about anything related to the web. that's great, but it can also be
seriously instructive to crawl your way through the wreckage of a project
that went down in flames, looking for the causes of failure.
the series i'm thinking of would be a sort of half-way point between
therapeutic bitching and the black-box recordings of a reasonably
intelligent professional trying to bring a corporate web presence project
in for the equivalent of a forced landing with only one working engine.
i'm mentioning it as a way of putting some accountability pressure on
myself. i'm afraid i'm just not the kind of steely-eyed ubermensch who
can teach unix and fend off VPs all day, then knock off a couple thousand
words about it in the evening for fun. the unix/VP thing, yes.. but
writing is hard work. to do that, i need people clearing their throats,
tapping their watches, and so on. so, if anybody is interested in
seeing notes from the trenches, keep me honest by raising a fuss if i go
for more than, say, a week without posting the latest casualty reports, okay?
mike stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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