Since starting work at my current workplace, which has almost two thousand employees in the same building, I’ve found myself in more meetings that I am used to. This is due to being in a central technology team in a large studio with many teams we need to communicate with via meetings. This, combined with [...]
In my previous post I talked about being bored and dealing with that, now its time to talk about being stuck and how to deal with it effectively. For me there is a few flavors of being stuck:
The brick wall: you’re working fine and then suddenly you’re stuck and you’ve no idea how to continue.
Recursively [...]
We’ve all been there, working away trying to solve some an implementation issue or design detail and suddenly realise we’ve been browsing the web or the building, chatting with co-workers for no reason, surfing the email inbox, going for over-long breaks or otherwise avoiding the task at hand. The most likely diagnosis? You are either [...]