My brother, the other day, a little frustrated with me, asked if I was going to start progressing a little faster on our projects. I’ve shared on this blog of mine that he and I are working on something pretty crazy. But it’s such a gigantic project that I keep getting distracted.
Of course I told him I was going to continue. And I mean it. I do continue. But the progress is slow, almost like going to the gym in your forties. Some days the excitement just isn’t there, and I try to fake it as much as I can.
Now that said, I don’t know precisely how it works in my head. There are projects, ideas, that I don’t need a pep talk to work on. I just do them. Today, for example, it’s almost midnight. One would think I should be in bed. I’m on my way there, but I’ve been toiling away with code until now.
There’s always one more improvement that jumps into my mind, and I have to chase it. Today it was progress tracking for the embedded video upload system, and a way to re-dispatch jobs when they fail, or when an encoder gets killed because someone uploads a gigantic raw file to a tiny VPS with 8 GB of RAM.
These were ideas sitting in the back of my mind. They existed on “the list.” But it wasn’t until today that I simply had to make them real.
I’ll go to bed now feeling accomplished, like I defeated a difficult dungeon boss. But I know that tomorrow I’ll wake up feeling behind again.
So much to do. And the list keeps getting longer.
– MenO
