Obsession
I should probably ask Purva Brown to come over and join me here at the Sacramento Real Estate Blog.
I need air support. I am pinned down by enemy entropy.
(You can see: I’ve been watching too much of the Military Channel, and taking my daughter out to see Transformers last night didn’t help at all).
The thing that has me pinned down and semi-literate is the new real estate listings site. The reason it has rendered me semi-literate is that there’s a large body of work in front of me, and even though an intrepid early adopter (can I get an intrepid early adopter?) could start blogging right now, I’m trying to get the site to the point where I’m not embarrassed to even be calling for intrepid early adopters.
The usual dynamic on software projects goes something like this:
CEO: “Ship it.”
Programmer: “It’s not ready.”
CEO: “I need something to show people.”
Programmer: “It’s not ready to show anyone. If I get a demo ready the whole project will take longer.”
CEO: “Ship it.”
Programmer: “It’s not ready.”
The problem with a one man software project is that I’m both sides of that argument.
I wonder which one of me will win?
Meantime, in order to get the work done at all, the programmer needs to be sitting at the keyboard thinking about nothing else but the project, period, and every twenty minutes the CEO comes along and says: “Did you blog something today? You know we need to keep up on our existing stuff while we’re doing new development, right?”
I really hate that guy.
