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2024-08-08

Project: TWI002

Journal

- Note taken on

The more I think about my anxiety, I wonder how much is tied up in moving pods

at work. I have this Impostor Syndrome thing where I assume I've f-ed up and

the axe is about to fall. So rather than be excited by the prospect of moving

teams and new opportunities, I'm stuck thinking I did something wrong and this

movement is punishment. Honestly, RAM Pod was probably not the best fit

for me, but I liked all the people it didn't make any sense to rock the boat.

But CRM Pod gives me an opportunity to try something new, and I should

embrace that.

- Note taken on

Last night was a pretty restless night of sleep. I have a lot of anxiety right

now around our financial picture (lots of debt, income that doesn't look to

grow), and how I'm handling work right now. Asa and I are travelling to

Grinnell with Sarah just about as soon as we get back from Kings Landing

summer camps, and I haven't actually taken time off work. I am also working

with a team right now that values high collaboration, and they're all in

Pacific time. So it's hard to take afternoons off, which is kinda the optimal

time to hangout with Mary Powell and her family.

I think I need to let that out of my mind for now though. There's not a lot I

can do. And I think a lot of it comes down to how I'm approaching work right

now. I feel like I'm being asked to grow and learn, and I'm reluctant for some

reason. Historically I would have loved this stuff, but right now I just kinda

want to do things the way I've done things in the past. Also, my co-workers

are much younger than me, and the folks I'm working on TWI002 are a lot

younger and very different personalities than I'm used to working with. I

think I need to take stock of where I've come from and the folks I have worked

with who appreciated what I brought to the table.

Tasks

DONE Try to get local database setup and running with frontend

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CLOCK: -- => 0:39

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Notes from talking with Charles

Shortcut basics

Stories

Not gonna have backlog

Backlog, In progress, review and done

Running standups, SCRUM master

Less about the tools, questions and answers

Tool surfaces questions

Running standup ... make sure everything is in the right spot

Don't run through all the tickets

Call out things that are not in the right place

5 minutes, look at where things are

As you get closer to milestones, gonna have gut feeling

Will you hit milestone, will drive conversations about HOW folks are gonna meet it

**What's realistic for week X?**

Stand up, zoom out a little ...

EM route, flag system, red, yellow, green

Ivan grabs a ticket, one day ticket, but it's been there all week
Not asking for help, but

Tech lead / PJM

Do weekly check in
Tech lead is breaking down work
PJM is seeing from data standpoint are we still on track
Dreamer for what it will look like to be done
Now we have 20 tickets, how important are each?