It's Okay To Feel Unproductive
Takeaways
- not getting too caught in the idea of satisfying work
- view your work as a process
- turn success oriented into process oriented
- success might not be the endpoint
- learning from failure is still productive work!
- the feeling of being unproductive
- just because a some tasks feel productive doesn’t mean that they are productive (e.g. setup babel, setup webpack, optimizing static type for no reason, ramda golf)
- so how to be productive in this reality where you can’t trust feeling productive, we should focus to the process instead. Instead of framing our self into a person that solving problem we are people who are bang our’s head against problem
- you might not be success, but you might learning that the problem :
- we might learn that the problem can’t be solved, learning is not failure
- sometimes problem shouldn’t be solved (maybe we miss understood the problem)
- too expensive to solve (use timeboxing)