„Focus on what is going right and what is going well”

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„Focus on what is going right and what is going well”

I spoke to one of the wisest and sweetest people I know and she said „Focus on what is going right and what is going well”. So I will. What is going right and what is going well? It’s difficult not to feel a bit broken 

Right now over my software engineering career. The last few years have been incredibly and unbelievably tough. I have overcome so many barriers and put in so much every single day - and the results feel slow to show even though I know they are there and they are coming. It’s so easy to break down and despair, so what is going right?

A photo of trees dappled in golden sunlight
The Ashdown (Winnie-the-Pooh) forest 

Well I am doing well. I am getting tickets and completing them and raising PRs and merging them. In the allocated time or less. My last PR had zero comments and while I love comments it was still a good feeling. The work is coming in 

And that is so amazing work. I have a piece of work and once I do it I will get a few more similar pieces of work. I don’t always understand everything and that is okay. The main thing is to get exposure and keep on trying - exposure to the components, code and repo. The stuff I’m doing well is that I keep on being independent. I keep on trying and I keep on investigating things. I keep on using my giant A3 sheets of paper and my markers to process things and grok things.

I open up links instead of being terrified of them and saving them and storing them for later. I opened up an example PR and it helped me push a huge amount of code yesterday. I opened up a wiki and that was hugely really helpful. I sprang on the ticket the moment I got it and that is really good too. I dropped everything and that is indeed my plan now - I want to stop the learning tasks I am alternating with.

Going forward if I need to learn something for a piece of work I will immerse myself in it completely for a day or however long it takes. I still have my project for if I ever run out of work completely

But I have so many docs to read as well

This is a good post and I will do another one of these

I have more picture of the ashdown forest so it is perfect

Maybe I’ll even do one tonight

This really helped me and lately it feels like not a lot of things really do 

Thank you 

P.s. I can’t wait for something exciting that is coming up soon.

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