I appreciated this post. Yes, it was a bit self-obsessed, but I found value in reading about someone else working through similar issues. Constantly reading a

I appreciated this post. Yes, it was a bit self-obsessed, but I found value in reading about someone else working through similar issues. Constantly reading about, "how I made x successful" can increase personal frustration and push vicious cycles further. Ignore distraction. My natural tendency is to idea hop to the next shiny object _real_ fast. I want to know about everything and I can't help but listen in on interesting conversations. I read links that really shouldn't interest me at all. I think that's the universal bane of the software guy right now. We want to take in everything to stay up-to-date and at the edge, but by doing so we actually let our skills (technical and time-management) slide.