I’m drowning in ideas and aspirations and clogging up my potential. Each backlog item containing a little backlog. I’ve unwittingly pre-occupied my time and money. ![]() Same with watchlists, reading lists, and even wishlists. I’ve started to see my side projects list as a backlog. I’m accepting this and trying to healthily manage my malbehavior, but preparing this backlog talk had an impact on me. Unfortunately, I’ve learned over time that rather than convert all that spare time into sitting on my back patio with a cocktail and a book, my brain chemistry desperately and immediately tries to fill that void with more side projects. I’ve had a similar weightless feeling before when a heavily-involved client project deteriorated on me. Suddenly, I wasn’t over-busy and I had spare time and mental energy. I handed the talk off and almost instantly felt a weight lift off my shoulders and a vacuum of free time mysteriously appear. And the portmanteau between a real physical log jam and my matched experience with backlogs was too good to pass up. I think every developer eventually finds themselves pinned beneath a weighty backlog, so it’s a topic worth talking about. It started last week after I finished a talk on managing backlogs called “Log Jams”. This year has already had a lot of priority shifting and malaise due to the virus and I wasn’t hoping for more, but August for me always brings along some form of miniature mid-life crisis. ![]() This week has left me in an unexpected posture of regrouping and re-figuring out some of my life goals and short term objectives as some plans have completed and some have fallen apart.
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