Hey everyone. We are approaching the holiday season. That means that traffic will be horrendous, and everything you order online will be late. Do not even think about using food delivery services. Your food delivery wait times will balloon, and you might even experience things like your food delivery person showing up in front of your house, throwing two food orders into the street, and then peeling away. When you ask for your refund, be prepared for the automated system to say, “We are so sorry you did not wish to retrieve your food order from the street and eat it.” Yes, this happened, and no, I will never know the full story about that delivery person.
Now that you have been warned that you should spend the next three weeks under your desk whimpering and mainlining hard alcohol, I have a question: Have you ever been in a standup and heard someone say, “I could potentially be blocked on my task”?
No. Just no. Please no? You are not potentially blocked on your task. You are blocked, or you are not blocked. You do not “think about considering the possibility that we are theoretically contemplating the optionality of being blocked.”
Please.
Just be blocked.
It won’t hurt.
It is okay to be blocked.
This is how we get better.
That is it. That is the whole post. I need to go and shower because I realized I could turn this entire post into a TokTok, and I am now unclean.
Before I go, I will throw down my holiday challenge: If I get ten people sharing this brief and incredibly valuable engineering insight on “The Socials”, I will assemble a top ten list of books for you to buy after cheesing me out of my Amazon Affiliate fee. You would think that you want to take money from Jeff Bezos… Why rob hard-working content creators like yours truly?
I will see you all next week.
