When the feeder gets empty, there is nothing to eat. You can try to time the filling with the feeder with when it gets to its near empty point, maintaining that perfect balance of “full but not full enough”. Or you can always fill the feeder with new ideas, new code, new words, new suggestions, new work, etc. When the feeder is full, you don’t have to worry about it getting empty. You don’t have…
Routines get broken. Work. Vacation. School. Unexpected events. It happens, the routine breaks, and now it lies on the floor laughing at you. You have a choice, leave it there, laughing, or pick it up and make it work once more – because it did before.
It’s getting harder to show your work. What are you going to show when asking a question to a search engine? Your question? What about ChatGPT? Your prompt? Work is important, it matters, but showing what you are working on, and how you are arriving at your answer is changing. The question of how you got to that answer needs to change as well. I tried this, then I tried that, I didn’t agree with…
What’s your next job? What’s your next project? What’s your next task? What’s the next goal you want to achieve? What’s the next vacation I’m going to take? Everyone needs a “What’s Next?”, not because you need to overload yourself and never take a break but rather because you need to have something to look forward to, something that can give you something to look forward to. The next is what drives us forward, and…
Ever looked at a project and thought – “This is a gut job”? Take it right down to the bare bones, save nothing, and start all over again, from the foundation up? It’s our first instinct when something is wrong – “Let me rebuild it the way I would do it.” But what we often forget when it comes to the Gut Jobs; The overages (because they will happen). Living through it (because you will…