Fear of missing out on work I am invested in outcomes. In the beginning, the sense of a job well done could be measured in days. I would rock up, hack out some code and by close of business, be able to test it. Daily outcome complete. Now, my outcomes seldom manage to be less than three months from one side to the other, often half years or even years; by way of example, having a complete feature built, …
Tag: advice
I have read what would probably amount to a reasonably embarrassing number of books on how to write fiction. There are two fundamentals I have taken from this corpus of writing on writing which are relevant not only to an ardent scribe but also to what I think of as broader life lessons. The first one, which is subject to every motivational YouTube video ever, is “do the work”. You cannot become slimmer, happier, more engaged in life, a better …