Brisk

Thursday October 21, 2004 - 6:59PM EDT

It is getting colder outside and I don't like the cold. I need someplace tropical or at least warm. Still basking in the glow of my exit. Feels good to stick it to them after taking so much bullshit. I don't know what they think of me but it is probably wrong. They will probably dismiss it eventually as young, brash, naive developer comes in and can't hack it. Very disappointing if they only believe that without at least investigating the real issues. I wear my exit and the way I did it as a badge of honor. Enough of that trash for now I got bigger fish to fry

I have a bunch of websites to work on right now, some I am getting paid for and others hold the promise of getting paid. The NYC trip is looking solid for next weekend. Getting more comfortable with Linux and learning more by continued reading.

Been thinking about business recently. Specifically the modern corporation and how they came to be. I think the modern corporation began to develop with the industrial revolution. Sure commerce was around before that but the Industrial Revolution changed commerce and it began to develop into what it is today. There is so much more to that statement, but I won't pursue it now. I can't shake the thought that corporations' concern with the bottom line seems flawed. Maybe it's not flawed but I think there is something shortsighted in how corporations go about making money. I want to argue that they would be more successful using a radically different approach to things. Not just business organization but the ultamite aim of business not being profit. I don't even know where to begin with that thought but I am working it out constantly in my head, maybe I'll come up with something, maybe I won't.

I've said this before but I will repeat it. I hate how symbolic organizations take credit for things and make you think that you owe it something. Its freaking weird. I don't get it. The parts that make up organizations are treated as if they don't exist and the organization is an entity unto itself. It is like thanking a pharmacuetical company for keeping your cancer in remission and completely ignoring the team of scientests who created the drugs in the first place. Never should an individual feel they owe anything to an organization, a symbol. There is too much of that, too much alligiance to symbolic entities. In some cases it may be good but it is getting perverse now. The electric companies don't provide the electricity it was the engineer who built the generator,the technician who layed the lines, the programmer who created the software, they guy sitting at the power station late at night making sure shit doesn't go wrong. Those people are trampled upon. They are trampled upon with the promise of something better, the promise of protection, the promise of stability. Those promises are used by certain people to seize control and pursue their own gains. What to do? I don't know. We can't possibly prop up every single individual on a pedestal, but we can't be subservient to symbolic organizations controlled by people with designs that are not to your best interest. What do you do? Gotta do something, try something. I'm hungry, time for some food