Work and doing stuff

So yesterday at work was a total bust - I spent all day avoiding getting started on this stupid little project that's in between me and the big project I want to be working on. However, because I had had priorities handed to me, I didn't want to work on the big project until the little one was out of the way. The little project involves rewriting a tedious part of a certain load process, and the big project involves rewriting the way we think about loading data, so that's very different.

Today I came into work and discovered that the little process had broken last night. In the process of cleaning up from that mess, I got more insights about what needs to be rewritten in my little project, so I might actually get to it today. Besides, the cleanup work had me start the day off being productive, rather than slipping into the pattern of spending all day flicking.

Sometimes I think that if it weren't for stuff breaking, I'd never be able to get anything done.

Delegation

So I just passed the bulk of my little project onto other people. Hopefully this will result in more getting done. It may mean that I have more cleanup work later, but I still think that overall we'll be able to deliver something to production faster this way than before.

We'll see, won't we?