About Being Accountable:
Reworking the corporate bylaws of PICKPOCKUT, INC. is a fun kind of nightmare. Naturally, corporate bylaws are a package that could be commissioned and done by a professional whose main focus in life is that kind of work, but, in such case, the person or people needing to know every word of those bylaws would be at the mercy of the author of those bylaws.
A version of the bylaws of PICKPOCKUT, INC. has existed since the corporation's establishment in 2003, but the nature of that package is more fantastical than is required going forward, since the nature of the business of PICKPOCKUT, INC. has been refined in concept and shall be lean in practice.
Anyone who's ever taken a look at any corporation's bylaws knows there are pages upon pages of rules and regulations that have to agree both with the statutes and the regulations of the geographical location within which the corporation exists and the nature of the business the corporation is to undertake. As such, a managing director of a corporation cannot simply take a passing interest in the content and meaning of his or her corporation's bylaws; as such, having a full understanding of such content and meaning means submitting to the maddening amount of information of which one must fully be versed or, at least, with which one must be quite familiar in order to competently helm a corporation.
For this reason, I've taken on the task -- again -- of writing the bylaws myself, and I found it scary at first, but a very therapeutic project as I delve deeper into the particulars of corporate structure.
The fun part of rewriting the bylaws is reflecting on my thought processes when I first wrote them a very long time ago. More fun, however, is how rewriting them has forced me to acknowledge the importance of never losing focus of important information and never putting important tasks on hold, because if that important information is important enough to be revisited -- or if those important tasks are important enough to be revisited -- a lot of time will have been squandered instead of having been spent doing meaningful work.
Ah, well.
-- Devon
