August 27, 2024
Give them No Excuses
If they don’t like your ideas, your implementation, what you bring to the table. Don’t give them any excuses. Implement it all. It’s hard to ignore the evidence when it’s working right in front of you.
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August 26, 2024
Time vs Accomplishment
I’m more of a task-based person – I like to check boxes on things I’ve completed. I did this task, I accomplished something, Huzza I got an achievement. Measuring success by time accrued is harder for me to work through – I did some stuff, I didn’t figure it out, but I made progress, am I closer to the end, I don’t know, when will this end, I don’t know, how long does this go on for? Writing the two out is exactly how I feel when accomplishing work by time or by task – I’m sure I just gave
August 25, 2024
Less Superficial Tickets, More Implementation
You know the question, go find the answer. Tickets are good for work that is going to take more than 30 minutes to an hour. Anything else? Do you need a ticket? Don’t get me wrong, I’m big on describing my work so people can know what I’m doing. If it’s anything less than 30 mins, I group it together. I don’t create tickets that say – “Apply Bold”. If I’m working on Task X, and I get asked a question, I’ll answer the question, not create a ticket to answer the question at a later date. Presumably, you need
August 24, 2024
What Timers Really do
Timers are great, they give you a unit of time to get work done, and then you break. You zone in and you focus in on that work to be delivered and voila you get it done. It’s incredible that the productivity hack of our lifetime boils down to tomatoes and timers that give you a block of time to get work done (I have a few of my own and I use the Google timer at many a project). But here’s the real value in all these timers (and it’s not the break) – it’s when you go over.
August 23, 2024
If it Doesn’t work the First Time
When you don’t know what you’re doing, I mean, quite honestly, you have no idea what you’re doing and you’re doing it for the first time – you have no idea what will happen when something goes wrong. “I didn’t realize – EVERYTHING – was using that component I was working on and now everything is down” (Never happens). But the more first times you go through, the more you think on your actions, the more you ponder the outcome and the more you worry, yes worry, about what happens when something goes wrong. It can become paralyzing as you