Summary: In my decade-long career as a web designer, I've never been able to get used to the sheer lack of efficiency in the corporate process when building a project. From gathering assets, to upholding schedule milestones, to meeting deadlines, to making decisions, to arriving at consensus and to completing payment… it's a process that gets irredeemably stuck in the rusty cogs of a bloated machine that has grown too fat to function, at least not with any level of reasonable efficiency. As a decisive one-man band who keeps it lean and works fast, it makes my head spin, leaving me amazed that anything actually gets done. I come from a show business background, where opening night is opening night, no matter how many more rehearsals you wish you had. For my own purposes, I work by a credo I heard from the TV sketch comedy deity Lorne Michaels, who said this about Saturday Night Live: "We don't go on because we're ready. We go on because it's 11:30."
