Yes. Everytime we start a new project. The amount of details always feels overwhelming. Not the code per se, but everything around it. How to design the infrastructure to optimize experience for everybody (ops, devs, customers, etc)? What are our next few scaling bottlenecks what will we do about them? What is the least costly way to setup cloud resources? Can our previous coding tactics be made better? How can we fit with customer timeline? And so forth. I drive myself mad constantly reassessing answers to these questions as new information comes in.
I end up burning most of my vacation days by taking a day here and there to get away from it. I call it a mental health day, a term I heard from a co-worker. It gives me a break from the stress and let's my brain process it in the background. It also refills my creative energy meter. Eventually, a solution crystallizes and concrete tasks fall out of that. The cycle repeats with incrementally smaller amounts of stress as the project goes on.
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Yes. Everytime we start a new project. The amount of details always feels overwhelming. Not the code per se, but everything around it. How to design the infrastructure to optimize experience for everybody (ops, devs, customers, etc)? What are our next few scaling bottlenecks what will we do about them? What is the least costly way to setup cloud resources? Can our previous coding tactics be made better? How can we fit with customer timeline? And so forth. I drive myself mad constantly reassessing answers to these questions as new information comes in.
I end up burning most of my vacation days by taking a day here and there to get away from it. I call it a mental health day, a term I heard from a co-worker. It gives me a break from the stress and let's my brain process it in the background. It also refills my creative energy meter. Eventually, a solution crystallizes and concrete tasks fall out of that. The cycle repeats with incrementally smaller amounts of stress as the project goes on.