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It's kind of maddening, after having the space to Just Think during the WFH days, to be back in the office and any time you stop typing for more than 30 seconds
by greenbit 2y ago
It's kind of maddening, after having the space to Just Think during the WFH days, to be back in the office and any time you stop typing for more than 30 seconds risk being interrupted by co-workers who think you're Not Busy.
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoI admire the heck out of the two coworkers I've had who were smart enough to stand up & go for a walk to think. Or to have a 1:1. I didn't face a ton of unscheduled conflict for my time, and there were many rooms available at that job. But the change in perspective was amazing, just so much power to help me really consider things in new light. It's funny because I grew up with Steve Roberts as my role model of role models, as the guy who showed me that being an adult could be fun & interesting, with his work-from-bike Winnebiko. And I was a seasoned coffee shop coder, which I found amazing with its change of scene & deliberateness. But seeing Adam have such a practice of getting up, grabbing a notebook (also a seasoned writing-things-down person; another key element of Hammock Driven Design), and going for a stroll (DC's Rock Creek Park was a bit over half a mile away) was amazing, really opened me up. As other comments mention, Rich Hickey's Hammock Driven Design is excellent, amazing. Some deliberateness about figuring out what we are doing, letting the waking mind come up with problems and possibilities, and giving time and written down ideas for the passive/sleeping mind to cycle through options & combine them... Kind of like protein synthesis, a soup of amino acids/ideas and your mind as rna, blindly bumping elements together to see if they bond. https://youtu.be/f84n5oFoZBc https://youtu.be/f84n5oFoZBc