Hi, I'm Gregory Brown.
My goal is to help software developers get better at what they do, whether they've been at it for five weeks or fifty years.
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I run a tiny web development shop that I occasionally work alongside subcontractors at, but it mostly depends on me to keep things moving.
In this setting, the most challenging thing has been sequencing and selecting work across multiple unrelated clients/projects, while also leaving time in the schedule for personal and business development.
Within the scope of a single client's work (and especially within a single project), it's pretty easy to draw a circle around a bunch of related items so that progress on one thing benefits several other things. When it comes to cutting across project/client boundaries, it becomes a lot more complicated. It's also hard to have the self-control to find a stopping point when you're down in the weeds on something even though it is important to do so in order to stay responsive to everyone else's needs.
I have gotten a lot better at this over the years, but it seems like it's still the biggest bottleneck for me in terms of daily work challenges.
I run a tiny web development shop that I occasionally work alongside subcontractors at, but it mostly depends on me to keep things moving.
In this setting, the most challenging thing has been sequencing and selecting work across multiple unrelated clients/projects, while also leaving time in the schedule for personal and business development.
Within the scope of a single client's work (and especially within a single project), it's pretty easy to draw a circle around a bunch of related items so that progress on one thing benefits several other things. When it comes to cutting across project/client boundaries, it becomes a lot more complicated. It's also hard to have the self-control to find a stopping point when you're down in the weeds on something even though it is important to do so in order to stay responsive to everyone else's needs.
I have gotten a lot better at this over the years, but it seems like it's still the biggest bottleneck for me in terms of daily work challenges.
Big thank you, very honest and i do feel the crunch, it is very much about pacing yourself but not feeling left-out