A Busy Saturday
I wasn’t going to post anything today. I felt I should deliberately not post anything to avoid getting fixated on a streak. But I did want to remind folks that Episode 3 of my new series, “Shelf-Life,” is coming out tomorrow morning.
I think I did pretty well this week, considering how busy things have been. I am, at present, managing the largest and most complex project I’ve managed to-date at work. I spent a year-and-a-half leading the discovery effort on this one, and now we have moved to implementation. It involves a lot of people and a lot of moving parts and I’m still wrapping my head around it.
Thinking about that reminded me of the first big company-wide project I worked on, which was our Y2K efforts. That started in mid-1998 or so. The web was different back then, and earlier this week, I wrote fondly of the old web. I was busy enough this week to prevent my from writing ahead, and so I made use of a post I’d written nearly a year ago, which talks about how my real hobby is learning.
There were some pleasant surprises, like the most recent issue of Smithsonian magazine, which contained an article about the years of Robert Caro, a writer and biographer I particularly enjoy. I found myself repeatedly distracted in my reading, which led me to write about my book stack management. And I confessed to a seemingly unshakable propensity to create complicated systems. I think I may finally be breaking that habit.
Usually, I’ve got all our tax papers ready to send to the accountant by the second weekend in February. That got delayed this year and has been weighing on me. I woke up this morning, and after returning from my morning walk, sat at my desk with the with resolve not to rise until that work was done. It took nearly three hours, but that work is done, and I have since arisen from my desk. Now I’ve returned to give tomorrow’s Shelf-Life post a final read, and to write Monday’s post, and possibly Tuesday’s. We have friends coming over for dinner so I’m trying to have all of that off my plate before they arrive.
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