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What My Toddler's "I Want The PINK Cup Not The BLUE Cup Even Though They're LITERALLY IDENTICAL" Phase Taught Me About Architecting Scalable Engineering Teams (I'm Shaking)

It is 11:47 PM, I am debugging prod, and my two-year-old has just delivered a request for cold water containing nested clauses, exception handling, and a default fallback. I dropped my laptop. Not because I was tired, though I was.

What follows is the five-stage framework I have derived from watching Luna acquire language: the naming explosion, the possessive pronoun wars, the discovery of AND, the arrival of BUT ALSO, and the final form where because and however and even though all arrive at once. Each one maps onto something a junior developer does. Each one deserves celebration rather than correction. I am shaking, and I am writing a book about it.

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Procrastination is an emotional problem fastcompany.com

As someone who battles "procrastination" I can get behind this. There can be a lot of moral judgement from others around procrastination.  Most offered solutions seem to be about willpower, time management or task management. Most of these solutions aren't solutions at all, particularly when others see you as someone who gets things a lot of stuff done, but deep down you really know about all the stuff you're putting off.

One small pilot study found very low procrastination scores among experienced mediators, suggesting that doing absolutely nothing might be the best way to get everything done.

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