Web Design

I want to focus. I want to narrow down the things I think about, the things I am paying (notice the verb) attention to. Such things are receiving my attention like money that I am paying to them. The question is, what am I getting in return for my "investment"? It seems as though the broader the base, the larger the group of diverse items, that I pay my attention to, the less any of them can give me back. Another way of putting it is that I can only pay a little to each one at a time; therefore they can't give me much at a time.

So last night, in the dark, I pulled out my little notebook, the one I consider "disposable," for short-term to-do lists, grocery lists, and the like, and wrote something a little more important in it. I will copy it below, for posterity's sake.

In my last job I tried to convince the boss that we would make better websites, faster, with more features to offer our customers, if we used an already-existing content management system like my favorite, Drupal.  Unfortunately, he had been burned in the past by using code that was not fully and directly controlled by him.  He had no trust of the open source development model, postulating that, just as a handful of men could take control of a 747 and turn it into a Twin-Towers-missile, so (he thought) someone could inject evil, destructive code into an open source project that could compromise our business.