At every moment when I feel confused I should be saying to myself: what's the problem here? And how can I try and resolve it?

I am studying on a 7 am train to London on a Saturday because I am that hardcore.

I have been told to think about what resources would help me. 

I am gonna speak to someone about this but basically I find when I have loads of stationary - A3 sketchbooks, coloured pens - it makes it so much easier. I was looking to maybe work with another mentor and we are sorting this out - I think it suddenly sort of depends on what direction I go in.

I was also told to think about courses.

We also looked at an API course.

We agree that more courses aren't great. They distract me from my work and I get overwhelmed by the whole cognitive load. But my director mentioned something about thinking about what I could do over the festive period to help me.

Now the problem I have is that I don't know which direction to go in.

Should I learn more backend as I am working in a backend team? Or should I learn more frontend as I want to move into solving frontend problems? Also I am nervous that my frontend abilities have not been focused on as much over the last year as I have been so backend focused - but nevermind I smashed out a professional frontend ticket in a couple of hours that will have a potential impact on thousands of people so that is pretty good right huh? I am just listening back to one of my many many wonderful calls with my amazing manager on the train.

I have about five more left to go.

Oh no Gatwick airport - the whole world is probably going to get on and my cute little things are scattered all over the table and my brand new pens.

I took part in a secret santa and they gave me exactly what I needed. It was the best. Take a look but there was so much more.

A gift from God for the final problem solving push:

So here are my problem solving notes from the first call I am listening back to today:

At every moment when I'm feeling confused I should be saying to myself: what's the problem here? And how can I try to resolve it? What's the problem here? And how can I try to resolve it? What's the problem here? And how could I try to resolve it? And what else came of the call: oh yes.

Problem solving applies to everything.

If it's software then it can be a problem, please. Thank you. Let me see if there's anything else on this call and if not then it's time for the next one.

Okay yeah it's actually the case that I'm done with this one as I only wanted to do the first ten minutes.

next call

aside - wait I am so confused - I am not sure if it was this call or the next call that I only wanted the first ten minutes of. I think it was the last call. Let me start this second one and see.

I watched the second call back but there wasn't too much.

Stuff like

With a new function:

• Check the function name
• Check the parameters
• Check the outputs
• Check the docstring