Distractions

As if on cue I opened this post to write it and immediately picked up my phone. Also ironic as I wrote a bit ago how happy I was on the day I spent without my phone. That isn’t my main source of distractions lately. I had a lot of work I was supposed to be doing and none of it was working. So instead of revising it and continuing on I just let the distraction take over.

Now this particular shiny object is very shiny and I am looking forward to seeing where it can go. The biggest issue is I keep staring at it instead of letting it be. It is my nature to want to do things. Doing things makes me happy and I like to do things where stuff is accomplished.

In some ways that is a strength and in others a weakness. The key is learning the difference. That is what I need to learn. Where is the strength and where is the weakness. In other words know when to hold them and know when to fold them. There is a time for action and a time for inaction. The problem is mixing them up.

The biggest issue we face right now is hiring and I let a non-working system continue for too long and then didn’t get back to it. One minor mistake earlier this year where I made an assumption that people couldn’t be that dumb and people were led us to revise a system that was working and turned it into one that didn’t. That means we need to go backwards but I also need to ask if people know what job they are applying for, because people are that dumb.

It is strange how many phone calls I get from people asking if they can come in for an interview. Please visit a company website before asking this question. Know where you are applying and what it is that they do. It is strange that this keeps coming up, and it feels like a more recent thing as well.

Understanding where my attention needs to be is not something I am always good at. I want my attention to be where there is the most reward, but that isn’t always where it needs to be nor to I know where the best reward will come from. I can build multiple exciting things at once. Systems inside systems that feed the systems. That is the goal and now that I can see the future again I just want to be there, and sitting in a coffee shop talking to some of these people doesn’t feel like getting there even if it is.