From 5159eeeea47d83745a8a940b31a123f6d34d6d34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: awstin
-I keep trying to get to work on personal projects.
-Expanding this website, making some new ones for a business and some utility things.
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-I am also trying to stay healthy and get better at Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
-Sleep enough.
-Spend time with my Fiance.
-Learn Japanese.
-Keep journaling.
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-I don't know if I am crazy but I feel like life should have time for things like this.
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-If I am up early enough to spend time building stuff I inevitably get frustrated when I have to stop and get to work.
-It takes time to get into the flow of building something new and getting a couple of hours (or even an hour) on a weekday is hard.
-So I wind up working on it on the weekends and just trying to capture ideas that I have throughout the week.
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-Obviously to me the time is going to work.
-Very often over the last few months I am spending time outside of regular work hours on work.
-We are trying to finish off a big project.
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-In the past most of the jobs that I have worked are physical.
-Coaching gymnastics, fixing hot tubs, sauna construction.
-They all require you to be there in person and therefore are not something that you can just casually log on outside of your normal hours.
-Software development is so much different.
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-There is this weird feeling of guilt when spending time coding my own stuff.
-There is always more work to do at work with most jobs.
-But software feels different in that this is also something that I like to do on my own time as well.
-With project deadlines looming and the simplicity of logging onto my work computer instead of my own to do broadly the same thing I feel bad when I spend my own coding time on my own projects.
-Writing that out sounds insane but it is the case a lot of the time.
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-Working from home a couple days a week also does not help.
-My desk is no longer my workshop, but partially an extension of my desk at work.
-Being able to work remotely feels like a gift.
-And for a lot of reasons it is.
-I can do laundry or cook meals during breaks, less commuting.
-However it really does make the lines blur between work and not, especially when I am wanting to code in my free time.
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-I think the answer is to treat this job as a physical one.
-Get a locker, leave my computer there.
-I wouldn't be able to work from home during regular work time anymore.
-That also means that I can't work outside of work time.
-I need that sharp delineation between work and the rest of my life.
-It just bleeds over too easily for me.
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-Which brings me to my more general thoughts that everything that we do has a cost associated with the benefit that it brings.
-We often get excited about the benefits and forget to take the cost into account.
-Working from home, adopting a new software tool, etc.
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-I am more and more often finding that the costs are not worth it.
-It has taken me 2 years to get to this realization with working from home in particular.
-I think the benefits were front loaded with realizing that I could get things done during work breaks.
-The costs however were slowly training me over time to see my home desk as a workspace and for my mind to associate the two.
-And it isn't worth it so I am going to try without and see how that goes.
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- Get to pick a new book to start.
+ Re reading one of my favourites, Gnomon by Nick Harkaway.
Where Did Time Go?
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-Currently Reading
Read so far in 2024
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Books, what I am reading, why I love them so much.
Just book stuff.
+ Some thoughts on time. + I catch myself coming back to this subject pretty regularly. +
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- How AI is (or more accurately is not) used in this site and my work in general. - And why. + How AI is (or more accurately is not) used in this site and my work in general, + and why.