Well, I finally found the expression that most characterizes me in terms of sentimental relationships. I’m the compulsive crusher.
I’m the kind of person who falls in love with other people very quickly. Then that feeling fades away quickly. Sometimes it comes back to me with force in my face. But it usually disappears relatively quickly.
Very funny (or weird) all this. I know it is.
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Note n° 200: le plaisir d’écrire au quotidien
Le 17 Octobre 2019, je me lançais un défi complètement fou, presque sur un coup de tête. Celui d’écrire un article sur mon blog chaque jour.
L’idée m’est venue après avoir lu un article de Seth Godin datant de 2015 où il recommandait cet exercice.
Seth écrit chaque jour au moins une fois sur son blog depuis 2005. Ça fait donc plus de 5500 jours consécutifs!!
Aujourd’hui, ça fait 200 jours depuis que j’ai commencé; et je me surprends à me mettre devant mon clavier à chaque fois pour placer quelques mots. Bien sûr, certains jours c’est compliqué, ou trop dur, ou c’est juste moi qui suis trop occupé.
Il m’arrive de me réveiller brusquement à quelques minutes de minuit en me rappelant que j’ai oublié de poster l’article du jour. Ou encore de n’écrire qu’une ou deux phrases parce que je suis en totale panne d’inspiration.
Parfois, j’écris des trucs complètement débiles, ou totalement à côté de la plaque.
Pourquoi je continue ? Parce que c’est tellement fun, agréable, et ça me fait énormément plaisir.
Il y a plein de trucs que j’ai appris en ces 200 jours. D’abord, que je retire plus de satisfaction à écrire pour moi même.
Ne pas me contraindre à écrire pour un public donné me permet de rester ouvert à une grande diversité de sujets. Autre chose que j’ai apprise, c’est que plus on écrit, plus ça devient facile de continuer à écrire.
Au début, je craignais d’arrêter au bout de quelques jours, faute de sujets intéressants sur lesquels écrire. Mais je me suis rendu compte que mon quotidien même est une histoire.
Là mon souhait c’est de pouvoir continuer le plus longtemps possible mes #DailyNotes; et bien sûr d’explorer de nouveaux sujets toujours plus passionnants.
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Feeling lost
Last Friday was a holiday. So I had an extended weekend, as they say.
I didn’t have any big tasks to work on for the weekend. So I found myself asking a thousand and one questions.
Going three days without having anything substantial to work on made me question my purpose. My purpose in life. My goals, my ambitions.
Not only as a person, but also professionally.
Honestly, I haven’t felt so lost in a long time. Disoriented. I remember sitting in front of my computer for minutes on Saturdays, my eyes wide open. Not really knowing what to do.
I hate feeling like that, a lot.
Then maybe it’s normal to have these whiteout moves when you’re in your early 20s. ????.
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Being confined to my own home has made me back to some pretty cool habits. I see it as unlocking new achievements.
First of all, I’m cooking more. Yeah, I know it’s weird. When I was still going to work regularly, I had less opportunity to cook at home.
Now I can have fun and cook cool (and sometimes unusual and bizarre) dishes. And also, at the beginning of this whole story, a friend and I did some big grocery shopping. So, in terms of groceries, I’m all set.
Finally, I take naps during my lunch breaks. Still strange I know. I don’t usually sleep during my breaks. When I was younger and I lived with my parents, my father always asked me if I was feeling well when he saw me sleeping at noon.
This is also a bit of a consequence of the fact that I cook more. I don’t waste time eating somewhere else anymore. So taking naps came naturally to me!
So we see the world differently
I think it’s possible that as a software engineer, you may see the world differently.
I mean, it’s possible. Personally, when I observe certain situations, I tell myself things I didn’t tell myself before I started programming.
So I guess it’s the same for others too.
I think about the logic behind things. Software, systems, etc… I think about the conditions that have been met for this or that action to be performed.
And I think it’s all really great.
(I know I’ve been talking a lot about SE these last days).
Make less « promises »
I tend to say yes to everything. I tend to accede to all the requests people ask me.
Most of the time, it backfired. Because I end up with a lot of « promises » made to everyone. And I realize that it’s pretty hard for me to keep them.
I promised myself (another promise), several times to say no more. Sometimes it works. Other times, I’m the one who’s too weak.
What if I want to remember my dreams?
I always dream when I sleep. I’d say nine times out of ten. But unfortunately, as soon as I open my eyes, I totally forget what I dreamt.
I feel like my dreams are exciting, moving. I know this because when I come out of a dream, I am most often touched, excited, or all trembling.
But how can I remember it? I have seen some techniques by searching on the internet. But they didn’t work for me. At the same time, I didn’t try them for very long.
The art of expressing one’s thoughts (or not) well
Sometimes you have a lot of things you want to say to certain people.
But we spend more time anticipating what these people will think of what we say, rather than telling them directly.
Chasing the techno
In the same vein as my note from yesterday, I came across (as usual) an interesting tweet today.
This is a Tweet from Irina Shestak, in which she says she has been practicing JavaScript for a number of years; but she is getting more and more tired of having to follow the evolution of all the technos that appear around this language.
As I was saying yesterday, in software engineering, things move fast, very, very fast. And when you’re not focused, you find yourself wanting to try everything.
I’ve done that too. It was fun at first. Then it got harder.
And JavaScript is a very palpable example of that. Not a year goes by without new frameworks coming out. And clearly, the temptation to switch from one techno to another is very strong. It really is. Even more so when you see very influential people on the internet praising the merits of these new technologies.
It’s a loop that can quickly become toxic if you don’t handle it properly.
So as they say…
Tools are tools. Let’s not be tools.
And finally, this very relevant tweet from David Heinemeier Hansson
Sometimes you don’t need more tools. You just need to be less reliant on complexity.
Most of the time, we’re busy dealing with a lot of tools to get the job done. But sometimes that’s not what we need. We just need to look the other way and use simple things.
This is even more relevant in the field of software engineering where every day new tools are created. Always more interesting, always more powerful and with more and more functionalities.
I’m pretty sure I’ve written these words somewhere before. Apparently it’s not on this blog. I searched with the site’s search field (which is very powerful) without success.
