I'm back

I've had a particularly rough year and I allowed myself to lapse in my blogging. I won't bore you with the list of things my family has had to deal with and, to be sure, there are families that have had to endure far greater hardships. Suffice to say: It was a lot of little things that added up to an overwhelming year.

That's okay.

It doesn't bother me that I failed to meet my commitment to write every day a year. That's life. I'll try again.

I'm trying again, now.

Continuous Satisfaction

No matter how easy we make things for ourselves, there will always be some way it could be better.

Things are almost never exactly the way they should be. Once we are accustomed to the unachievable pursuit, it's easy to fall into the trap of only noticing what you don't have.

If you add a new layer of tests, you're likely to notice that there's another way you could make your pipeline more strict. If you speed your pipeline up a little bit, you may create an appetite for making it go faster. If you fix a design flaw, you might find that another, more subtle flaw becomes apparent.

It's good to notice those things but sometime's it's also good to stop and remind yourself of what is going right, what you have accomplished...what is better because you touched it.

I have no ritual, ceremony, or process for this. I just try to think about the things I have achieved whenever I get frustrated with the as-of-yet-uncompleted tasks in my life.