Dave’s sticking the pages in here; he wants me to do that, but:
1. I need to concentrate on processing books for Ka-Blam. That can take a couple weeks for 3 books, and then there’s the upload process; not so hair-pulling, but takes some care and attention.
2. These aren’t my only deadline projects; I can manage to get files to Dave to upload, number them, and put in a bit of a blog. But other people have paid me cash, and first paid, first served. This website is trickling in a little money — better all the time — but when somebody whacks me with four figures, I gotta salute that flag first.
3. I wasn’t raised with code. Computer code is a LANGUAGE — and the cut-off age for easily learning languages is early puberty. At that point, the brain section that deals with that simply atrophies, to make room for adult things. I WILL botch whatever code is handed me. This is like asking a pianist to fix a motorcycle; the result will be a crippled pianist and a broken motorcycle. Believe me, you will not be happy if you ask me to stick my inky fingers in your nice clean code.
4. Anybody who wants me to do code MUST pass this test — draw a horse in ONE MINUTE to MY SATISFACTION. An engineer who couldn’t get why I couldn’t do code literally cringed when I made this demand. If nothing else, the future of work on this planet MUST be about people doing what they’re trained for and like — or we’ll get the usual miserable botch job we’ve had for centuries. It’s faster, more efficient, and makes more art and money in the long run. I recognize that no programmer has the time to 10,000 bad drawings to begin to gain my hand-eye conrol; I’ve literally done millions of images). The job of any project leader today is to learn who can do what BEST and direct them to that job; in other words, they have to learn to be good sergeants!
