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"Go Home Red" is a slogan I've heard tossed around the length of my career, meaning "leave a unit test failing overnight." It's trivial if you're practicing TDD
by gavmor 4y ago
"Go Home Red" is a slogan I've heard tossed around the length of my career, meaning "leave a unit test failing overnight." It's trivial if you're practicing TDD, since most of your time is spent coding against a failing test. A failing test really expands your short-term memory, ameliorating interruptions like meetings, Slack messages, and having a life.
Regarding open loops "living rent-free in my head," preoccupation with work outside work can certainly be a health hazard, but I have never found `git push` to reduce those ruminations. If engaging hobbies and loving community don't do it for you, maybe some mindfulness meditation might help "let it pass."
That being said, I am not super disturbed if even my dreams are infiltrated by the dayjob on occasion; I don't bill hourly.
- m463 4y agoone thing that helped me with open loops is to have what David Allen of GTD calls a "Trusted System" It's a system you trust to record those ideas bumping around in your head. That lets you get them OUT of your head until you start working again, and relax.