Find the music you need to get that mountain of work done. Play it on repeat for 4 – 5 hours. Lock into it with your headphones. Play it over and over again. Get it done.
I haven’t workshopped in a few years. Haven’t had the opportunity to get together with people in a room, ad-hoc, and workshop a problem. It’s something that gets scheduled now, gets pushed out, and gets delayed. And yet, when there is a problem at hand, it’s the most powerful tool that we have to use. “Let’s get in a room now and discuss” – I miss hearing that.
If it was easy to find the dream job, reaching the apex of your career, batting 1.000. Everyone would be doing it. But everyone’s not doing it, so keep chasing. Because not everyone does.
I like building the foundations, I can make them as durable and resilient as possible. I can build all the hooks and failsafes that no one cares to look for but are happy they are there. The finishing touches are another matter, they slow me down, and cause me to question myself and everything I’m doing. Because I’m no longer thinking about what I want it to look like, but what others might want it…
Communication goes through many people. Along the way, it can become distorted, messages missed, and chaos and confusion ensue, the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing, and no one is sure what the other is doing. This happens, even with the best of teams, it happens. There is a trap that comes with these blips in communication – more meetings, more checkpoints, more communication – more, more, more – we need to…