A nerd turned Software Engineer turned Manager. I love developing products from the ground up and keep refining them after the inital build. I work at Siresca leading the development of our product –1 iOS and Android App with AR support for constructions sites.
And no this is not written by AI I just like using em dashes ;-) ↩︎
When I work or research a topic I have no experience with, I notice that after some hours, I get super tired and can’t focus on the problem anymore. My brain gets tired, and I’m only capable of doing simple administrative tasks or work that I’m very familiar with.
As I get older, I feel the brain fog a lot more often. I used to be able to code for hours plus every day without fail, but lately, I struggle even to get five hours of focused work. It can even get dangerous when I want to drive a car at the end of the day.
Should you use a library when only a tiny part of its functionality is relevant to your application? Or would you be better of in writing the needed code yourself?
Writing the code yourself instead of using the library would make the code more straightforward, and you would not need to invest time in learning the library. And we all know that documentation for such libraries is usually not very complete. And the next person to work on the application would need to learn & understand the library as well.
Each day you have one or more meetings. The meetings are distributed over the day without any system. One is at 9, and the other is at 10:30. And in the small gaps, you cannot focus and get work done. The half-hour meetings always take at least an hour and fifteen minutes. The constant context switching means you get nothing done before lunch.
On top of the regular meetings, you get an emergency meeting. To discuss the latest development in the project and the meeting is in your lunch break.
You need to organize a meeting. The company requires you to provide an agenda to prevent the meeting from going all over the place. Or have people attending who don’t need to be there (see Sitting in multiple meetings each day and never say anything?).
Writing an agenda does not need to be complicated. The agenda also help you get clarity about what you need to discuss. The outline is giving you a tool to realistically estimate the time required — giving you a chance to time box your meeting appropriately.
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