Every day I go… “Above and Beyond”

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Every day I go… “Above and Beyond”

Above and Beyond are one of my favourite electronic music artists. 

They have a song called “Surge”. That song is exactly what a power station sounds like. That song is exactly like what it feels like to drive among the pylons as they come out of a power station. That song is exactly what it feels like to be in the flow of electricity, flowing around and curling around, lightning fast, and FULL OF POWER. Because I came into this industry for a reason.

I CAME INTO THIS INDUSTRY FOR A REASON. And  every time I get down. EVERY TIME I GET DOWN I only have to look out to sea and see a wind farm

And it’s all okay again. I only have to look out to the sea and see a wind farm

And everything is okay again. All is right as rain in the world 

A photo of a tree

So how do I go above and beyond every day? Well today I am focusing on narration.

And overall at the moment I am focusing on narration. As this seems to be my saving grace and my redemption arc in software engineering. And so my focus for this week is to improve my PR descriptions. I don’t think mine are bad. But I want to get better. I want to improve. I was just going to go and ask a mentor about it. Silly, really. But then we came up with these steps with a leader at work:
  • I am going to put in an hour in my calendar sometime this week
  • I am going to review some PRs (aim for 3) (that probably means I will try and do ten)
  • I am going to try and figure out what makes a PR description useful for a PR
And then on Friday I will meet with my mentor and ask him some more about it

Anyway thanks 

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