A couple months back I started a project to create an Army company operations web enable database system. It was a sky high effort with a goal to save the Army billions among other benefits. This has been tried in a few less successful and less comprehensive systems. Access database is a common approach and in some cases is actually useful. The problem with access is availability. It's hard to secure and hard to share with the massive amount of personnel needing access leading to the few servicing the many or massive leaks of sensitive data. This is all fine and great but finding the motivation to sit and code in processes that are complicated even in paper form is no easy task. Although, I haven't been help to myself in this area. I've been wasting time baking bread, reading large books (Ike) and doing generally worthwhile but not world changing activities.
Self gratification is hard to beat with self sacrificing work. Especially when I plan to give away this system for free and in contrast I have the option to do part time work for fast cash instead (which I'm doing now). Delayed gratification may be a attribute long lost to my generation and it may be quite a while before it makes a reappearance. The end choice will be whether I want to be a part of that reappearance or drown with the flow.
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