Someone [okay, so it was Alex] asked me today, “So, how do you determine what goes on which site?”

This is a question I get often about this site and The Indiana Jones School of Management, which you might or might not realize is also mine. The other question is, “Why two sites?”

I’ve probably answered this before, but it’s worth answering again: I leave more of a purer Weblog over there, and leave here to be more about me. That’s why the domain with my name on it gets stuck with stuff that’s primarily about me.

Is there overlap? Sure. Some entries are mis-filed [and I can probably fix that in the medium term, whenever I get out from under the pile of stuff to do, that is!], and for a while, IJSM was borked and GFMorris.com wasn’t.

But really, I do try to let this be about me, and let the other be about more than just me. I’ll kvetch about work or muse on things over there, but the reason that I do that there is that short bitch sessions about what’s pissed me off at work that day don’t fit in here with weightier thoughts.

At least I’d like to think so, anyway.

It will be easy for you to tell when I am too busy to spend good time thinking and writing: the content output here will drop to record minimums. But since I’d like to think that you use a syndication feed to check this site, you don’t have to load it all the time.

One of these days—probably about the same time my truck gets cleaned out—the whole GFMorris network will come together. Then you can really get scared. Then you can ask, “Why four sites?” The answer will be pretty simple: “It suits me.”

Asking why and expecting me to answer you honestly and correctly is not worth your time. The answer usually is, “I don’t know myself.” Like I said when filling out my Orkut profile: “When I can fill out this box that tells me to “describe yourself” accurately, it’s time to die.” The day that something about me is not evolving, is not changing, is not reforming … I might as well pack it in, folks.

If I confuse you, realize that I confuse myself, too.