Thursday, 9/26/2019
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DONE Drive kids to school
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DONE Breakfast for kids
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DONE Set tasks for the day
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DONE Check email
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DONE Review PRs
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DONE Thursday call with Cris
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#+BEGIN_QUOTE
Make haste slowly
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+ Talk to product manager to discover users
+ Seek out the empathy of the user
+ Autonomy in what you work on to maximize leverage
+ Do or die for the company, so product prioritizes
+ Seems like best use of time
+ But product wont focus on dev problems
+ If you didn't have product person, would be easier decision
+ Evaluation of pain points, too
+ Have to say: What are gains? How much effort?
+ Gotta make case, and get buy in
+ Document what you want to work on
+ How are you doing permissions now?
+ We have these assumptions . we're doing it
+ If you did it a different way? Will it still suit our needs
+ Speak product's love language ... documenting paths
DONE Write in daily journal
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DONE Dishes
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DONE Add tests for conflict resolution form function
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DONE Soccer Practice
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DONE Dinner
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DONE Bedtime
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DONE Complete my 15Five
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Journal
Slept on the couch last night. Nabby was not settling in her crib well, and Emma
said she was on the edge of being sick the other day. So I figured I'd give her
some quality sleep. I still got slightly north of six hours of sleep, so it
wasn't all bad, but I know I'm gonna be tired later today.
Time to get back into a rhythm as well. Jon Noel bailed me out with the soccer
game and practice this week, but now I'm a little worried about the bar he set
with the kids. I probably shouldn't worry, but that's life.
My mentor meeting with Cris this morning was solid. We talked about a lot of
soft stuff before getting into the discussion I wanted to have about product
engineering and the problem of working autnomously while also following along to
product's drum beat.
The conclusion we arrived at was that, as an engineer, the best thing you can do
is speak in product's love language of documentation. Document proposed
solutions so you can make arguments and come to agreements. If you have an idea
for some cool new tool that might make engineering's job easier, you have to
sell it, just like product has to sell their idea.
Report
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| Tags | Headline | Time | % |
|--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+--------+-------|
| | *Total time* | *9:47* | 100.0 |
|--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+--------+-------|
| | Wednesday, 9/24/2019 | 9:47 | 100.0 |
| | \_ Tasks | 9:47 | 100.0 |
| @family, kids, school | \_ Drive kids to school | 0:25 | 4.3 |
| @family, kids, meal, breakfast | \_ Breakfast for kids | 0:50 | 8.5 |
| @personal, tasks, daily | \_ Set tasks for the day | 0:36 | 6.1 |
| @personal, email, comms | \_ Check email | 0:02 | 0.3 |
| @15five, prreview | \_ Review PRs | 0:15 | 2.6 |
| @personal, mentorship, cris | \_ Thursday call with Cris | 0:56 | 9.5 |
| @personal, habit, journal | \_ Write in daily journal | 0:14 | 2.4 |
| @home, chores, dishes | \_ Dishes | 0:18 | 3.1 |
| @15five, grouptypes, eng4022 | \_ Add tests for conflict resolution... | 3:23 | 34.6 |
| @soccer, practice | \_ Soccer Practice | 2:48 | 28.6 |
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