MY HEART POURS OPEN WITH MY LOVE FOR THIS WORK

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MY HEART POURS OPEN WITH MY LOVE FOR THIS WORK

Okay so this one is being done after hours.

So I wanted to talk a bit about balancing my priorities.

I have a main thing. That is my work. That will always be my work. I mean it's all my work. But I mean my tickets. Building asana tickets - that is my main job. Attending meetings. I even propose new work sometimes.

But within that - you see as an AuDHD person my preference would be to focus like a crazy person 

On just my tickets.

But as you get more senior that is not an option.

And as I grow I have a few things going on.
  1. My venvs project - a staff engineer proposed I take a few days to do this tutorial. But my senior colleague who knows me much better has suggested I do it in chunks. So there it is. I am going to do it in chunks. In between tickets or when I need a break or when it's too late to ask someone a sensible question.
  2. Documenting my product - I work on the coolest AI product in the world. I love my product so so much. We are working on building some cool documentation for it. This is mainly to allow me to learn. But it could be helpful to others too. It will give me a chance to explore the codebase!
  3. Spa days. Once a month we have tech debt days. I am working through a backend engineering course on mine. Very slowly. This is why you may sometimes see blog posts from me on Fridays. slow progress. I still don't know what a namespace is
By protecting my time I can allow myself the couple of hours in the week I need for venvs, and for this documentation, which is part of my workstream, anyway

thanks

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