Hiya

If you’re at all like me, there’s the manic periods of development, where things get done… and there are the lulls. What do you like to do in those lulls? Do you have a bin of fun work shit to do? Do you watch videos? Touch grass? Socialize?

Just curious

  • Jeezy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 years ago

    More and more lulls with more and more years of experience. I hit the gym more, socialize more, cook more extravagantly, take walks more often etc. The most important thing was to train myself to not give a damn when people were making stupid decisions at work that were going to bite them N months down the line during those lulls.

    • jadero@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      3 years ago

      One of the things I used to say, probably beginning in my 40s, was “I’m getting too old for this shit.”

      There were certainly occasions when I acted on it, but it didn’t really become the heart of a philosophy until well into my 50s. By then it had transformed into just plain “I’m too old for this shit.”

      I just retired at 66, and am starting to think that maybe workplaces and social “obligations” would be much improved if more people started living it earlier in life.