A lot of my day job work is self directed because our managers expect a lot out of us but also leave us alone to do the work (amazing right?) but message receiv

A lot of my day job work is self directed because our managers expect a lot out of us but also leave us alone to do the work (amazing right?) but message received. Let's take one not related to software at all! I turned a shed into an office over the course of many months: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis/status/1333866090573811723 https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis/status/1333866090573811723. I wanted to give up and burn it down at some points, but I powered through and ended up with the perfect shedquarters! I also did a podcast many years ago that was hard for me to produce, but I powered through until I felt like it had reached its natural conclusion: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI72dgeNJtzr2Hd6UscinFJkAzTMTFwwy https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI72dgeNJtzr2Hd6Uscin.... I created a course teaching college students financial accounting that's made over 100k in the 5 or 6 years it's been live (http://acct229.com http://acct229.com). That was a freakin grind that I thought about quitting a lot. I also started doing tech YouTube videos recently and each one is a tiny exercise in finishing (and it feels great to ship!): https://www.youtube.com/@aarondfrancis/videos?view=0&sort=p&shelf_id=0 https://www.youtube.com/@aarondfrancis/videos?view=0&sort=p&... I wrote and released an open source package called Sidecar (https://github.com/hammerstonedev/sidecar https://github.com/hammerstonedev/sidecar) for managing Lambda functions from Laravel. That led to me speaking at Laracon Online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rq-yHAwYjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rq-yHAwYjQ) and also to being asked to produce a course for Laracasts (https://youtu.be/0Rq-yHAwYjQ?t=11759 https://youtu.be/0Rq-yHAwYjQ?t=11759). Speaking at the first Laracon led to speaking at the second Laracon Online (https://youtu.be/f4QShF42c6E?t=21744 https://youtu.be/f4QShF42c6E?t=21744). Both of these led to me being profiled by GitHub's ReadME project at https://github.com/readme/stories/aaron-francis https://github.com/readme/stories/aaron-francis. (The shedquarters is featured here!) That interview led to another piece called "Publishing your work increases your luck" at https://github.com/readme/guides/publishing-your-work https://github.com/readme/guides/publishing-your-work. I gave a talk on that article at GitHub Universe. That article led to... this article. And here we are! Each of these things have 1) felt awesome to release and 2) directly increased my luck, my bank account, or led to the next thing. Hope those examples hit home a little harder!