culture

I mentioned my #TODO list in a previous post. It’s nothing complex, but chewing on it late last night, I thought it might be worth writing up. Late night was followed by early morning, so here I am. I should point out all examples in this page as fictitious, but based on real work over the last couple of years. I’ve started both previous “how I work and live” posts being embarrassed to be writing them, because they’re not especially clever or new, but I’ve had some lovely feedback and so maybe they’re at least entertained, if not helped, some folks....

Once again, I find myself feeling somewhat ridiculous writing and posting about something that is not complex or clever, but I figure that if it’s helping me, maybe it’ll help some other folks. Over the last year or so I’ve found that making use of my phone alarm and calendar has made it easier to relax and be productive. Partly the move to working from home all the time has made this more possible, but I think a lot of these habits will carry over should I end up returning to an office, full or part time....

I feel ridiculous writing this, but the last year especially has made me believe more and more that the key to getting things done as a group, is writing things down. If you’re working solo, doing your own thing, then you can probably get away with writing very little down, but if you’re going to be part of a team (and who isn’t, when you get down to it), writing stuff down is key....

I’ve tried to write this post so many times, and never need happy with how it came out. So fuck it, I’m going to write it in one sitting and post it. This is by the way no reflection on my current job, I’ve been brewing this one for well over two years. A post about Crunch Mode I re-read this morning and some of the tweets that followed made me get this written down finally....

When discussing code it’s all to easy to use words and language which express your feelings but add nothing to everybody’s understanding of the situation. Over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to catch and correct myself (we’ve a new team member and there’s a lot of our stack to learn so it felt important) TL;DR Everything you can do to swap from the emotive to the constructive will reduce tension and reworking whilst improving understanding and learning....