So so week… It started out great (Monday), then went downhill (Tuesday-Thursday), but then Friday started to pick up again. A great learning from this week is the need to set reasonable expectations.
Words of the week:
- Progress: I’m seeing some good progress all around. My projects are moving forward, people want to talk to me about projects, and things are moving in the right direction (i.e. working on interesting stuff with interesting people).
- Index: I found out what was causing my database troubles before… I didn’t have the right indexes on the database. I made the changes, and the database performance improved dramatically! This is the rusty thing that I was talking about last week. (but at the same time found that I can’t have a longitudinally persistent ID)
- The Universe: Call it what you will, but the universe is quite powerful in letting you know when you’ve reached your limit, and need a break. The human folly is that we persist against all the signals we receive, when all we need to do is not necessarily give up, but pause and reflect.
Number of the Week:
- 30: This week I celebrated my first 30 days without having a drink. It’s pretty amazing that I have been able to control stress in the last month and get back on the right path. I need to introduce more stress (both good and bad) to see how I do.