Sometimes the smallest things can hold you up. A task that seems straightforward turns into a huge deal. It can be so aggravating!
EGM and I are both dealing with simple things that are turning out to be huge assholes, but for different reasons. I’m working on the Crummy Tedious samples (have you noticed the counter moving?) and although I’ve got some momentum right now, when I take a step back I get so disheartened that I’m still working on these samples that should have taken only a summer to finish. They are just a lot more difficult than they should be. EGM has reached a step in his work where the technology available isn’t performing as well as he needs it to. Now he’s struggling to find something better. With his obsessive personality type, solving this problem is a big time suck.
The insidious part of these small jobs that take more time than you plan for them – vampire tasks – is not the time you actually spend working on them, but the time you spend fretting and procrastinating. It’s the procrastination that turns them into big scary beasts that block the path to project completion.
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Nice phrase! I think that really would have caught on with The Boss, since we were all always teaching him new words and phrases (e.g., Ho, whatevs, and pimp it out.)
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