Hey, this is the Daily Overpass, my name is Eric and I make apps!
Today, let's talk about different kinds of lazy!
Hey, good morning!
It is 6.30 in the morning, I am in the car park of the new office building.
I'll do one tomorrow from inside the new office.
Apparently people don't get here that early, I guess I got a nice early start!
I spent most of yesterday moving office, moving from the old place to the new place, loading
up the car several times, hauling things up and down the stairs, it was a busy day!
But one of my neighbours saw me and asked how things are going and everything.
We chat every so often.
And I was talking about how I'm moving office and also about one of my apps being suspended
and it's kind of like, just trying to keep everything going!
But I said something I've said a few times here on this channel which is "maybe this
will make me a little less lazy in the future.
Sometimes I get a bit lazy and maybe this will keep me more focused.
The positive, that's the silver lining".
And she said "Eric, I would hardly consider you lazy!"
Which is good to hear! every so often, it's something I've heard from a few people.
When I say that they say "Eric, trust me you are not lazy, you are not a lazy person".
And it feels good to hear except that I know that it can be wrong.
One of the things that we, as software developers, we have a better understanding of us.
We know that you could be going through all the motions, sitting down at the computer
at the keyboard, typing away, but you're having a lazy day or you're having a productive day.
There's this whole thing about the grind, and you get all wrapped up into it.
We know as software developers that you can have a programmer who is more productive in
four hours than someone who is working 14 hour days.
So a non-productive day for me might be like, I know I need to call up a client, or I need
to work on this one client project, but then I think "you know, I'll watch a tutorial on
dart".
Education and training is important, but not all the time.
You can't spend all your time training and everything like that.
While it was really easy to hear what they say, because I can talk myself into it.
I could, I know myself well enough that I can say "yeah, you know what, I do work really
hard, I am always on the move.
I'm always going places and I'm always up early and into the office and everything like
that."
But sometimes you're just going through the motions, you get into the habit.
I get up early, I go do everything, but you're not fully in it, you're not present.
You're just doing it.
I'm not saying I do that that often, I'm still productive, but sometimes the Parkinson's
law kicks in.
Work expands to the amount of time that you give it.
And sometimes if you have too much time to do something, like if you have a bit of passive
revenue coming in making you lazy, then you might say "you know what, we're fine with
the amount of clients that we have at the moment, we're fine with the amount of projects
we have at the moment".
So, being lazy is sort of in the eye of the beholder and I have to hold myself to the
standards.
That's one thing as developers, we know that even while it may look like we're super productive
to other people, we know the guy inside, right?!
We have to hold that person accountable.
So anyway, just my thoughts for today, I'll do another one from the office tomorrow to
show you guys.
It's actually really nice out here, not a lot of people into the office yet but it's
that building back there.
Anyway, that's it for today, i'll talk to you guys tomorrow!