Getting things done

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Ok, so this is kind of a feelings-y productivity-y post. So, to be clear – this is not advice, even though it’s phrased that way. This is just some stuff that feels like it’s working for me right now so I wanted to write it down. I will go back to writing about strace again soon. The premise is – I have a job. I work on a pretty small team, and so what I personally get done is a pretty large part of what the team overall does. So given that I work on a good team that helps me do things, what can I personally do to be better at getting things done? We talked about this in How do you decide what to do?. This is the “can I explain what I’m doing to someone at a conference?” test. When I can’t do this I find it really hard to get things done. This is because without a framework for what I’m doing (“make our infrastructure cheaper to run! Make it easier to debug problems! Improve reliability by making it harder for humans to make mistakes! protect our customers from fraud”), it’s really eas

Ok, so this is kind of a feelings-y productivity-y post. So, to be clear - this is not advice, even though it's phrased that way. This is just some stuff that feels like it's working for me right now so I wanted to write it down. I will go back to writing about strace again soon. The premise is - I have a job. I work on a pretty small team, and so what I personally get done is a pretty large part of what the team overall does. So given that I work on a good team that helps me do things, what can I personally do to be better at getting things done? Have a vision (maybe even the right one) We ta

Getting things done

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