I’ve spent 7 years working in large tech companies, and I can expect every now and again I’ll need to do some menial work that can take hours or even days. Sometimes by myself, and other times as a group with other engineers. This can be clicking through too many UIs, running through a list of commands and wait times, or going through a spreadsheet of 1000+ rows and typing “good” or “bad” for each row. ...
New Ideas, New Projects. I come up with ideas all the time, anywhere and everywhere. I’ve always wanted to make things. An idea gets stuck in my head. I spend time thinking about how I could make it work, I lay it out at a high level, and decide to dive in. It’s exciting to start something and throw a bunch of time into it. However, I find that over time the excitement wanes, at least relative to the next new fun idea that’s stuck in my head. Rinse and repeat. ...