2019-08-30 08:10
Another cool morning means autumn is quickly approaching. All week I've found it hard to work in this time in the morning, as I stress about getting to work and trying to get my work done. I always feel like I'm behind schedule, like there's too much to do, like I'm not getting it all done fast enough. Ironically, in many ways, what constitutes "behind schedule" are my own estimates of how much work my assigned coding issues are. I guess more generally I need to continue working on my estimates of the work I am assigned. We've been estimating our work for a long time now (getting close to 2 years, maybe more) and I still don't feel like I am accurate enough for tasks that aren't very small and contained. Whenever an issue is more involved the estimates quickly become inaccurate as unexpected aspects are uncovered or I struggle with learning something new for the task at hand (like recently having to learn a lot about handing async code in node with Promises and async/await functions, as well as writing unit tests for same).
Been thinking about how I could be more flexible about my writing. Rather than once a day, I could just write bits and pieces whenever something strikes me as worth writing down. That would be a whole new habit to form. In a way it would be like the general use of social networks for people, sharing bits and pieces here and there, but I don't currently have a way to do that so easily for this sort of private/personal space.