Wednesday, May 22

[soid]

Woke up at 7:10 with the alarm. Then at 7:20. Then 7:30. Finally, got up; half a cup of coffee, and goat yogurt with blueberries (it's no different than milk yogurt). I went to the train by 8:20. It looked hot outside – 69ºF in the morning – I didn't need a second layer anymore, just a t-shirt. The train was crowded; I went to the first car where I was able to find the last seat. The middle cars were jammed with people. I never understood why people jam in the middle when they can walk just a minute for less crowded cars. Then, on the train, I got cold in my T-shirt: the A/C was too strong. I almost had a sore throat by the time I arrived. 

After the standup, we met with Will and Ryan and talked about some changes in the receipts UI. Will talked about "cognitive load" in the UI, when a new user buys a ticket we don't want to overload them with options. On the fifth purchase, we will ask them to provide an email if they want a receipt. It felt foreign to me at first, but then I started liking this system. 

So then I worked on the UI client changes, learning React and Native, and started looking into Redux – the local storage. 

In the afternoon I had a 1:1 with Will: he gave me some feedback that made me – I will call it – "depressed". No, not really depressed. I will say it made me feel like a swirling veggie salad, what else to call it, unable to write about it and overthinking. Nothing bad, just hard to process. So I will not write about it cause I will run in a loop if I try; I will just say it caused a complex emotion to me. I'll just say that at the core of it was the feedback that I created too much chat traffic asking questions that I'm able to figure out on my own, and that reverberated with my view of collaborative space. So I will try to work more independently. Part of it is that I try to work remotely as if we sat next to each other, but it is different: in the chat, I can't see how busy are other people. I de-taste these remote work modes, but it seems there is no way around it; the world has changed and I will adjust to it.

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Asking questions at work. I had that problem, my first year at Borland - I never encountered Unix before, so it was all new, and I did not hesitate to ask (I never do). As a result these dummies decided I'm an idiot that knows nothing. Oh, that was even before Google and before social networks (except for Fido), so there was nowhere to ask. This reputation stayed there for years. I did not get it then. Had to leave faster than I did.

Now I actually don't care. And now we have copilot.