In most of my time at my current job, I’ve had a work friend in Slack who I’ve been chatting with most of the work day. At first it was a fellow engineer on another team, then it became the designer on our team, and after he left, it was the new designer who replaced him. Well, that designer left the company and now I’ve got no one to chat with. I dunno why it took me about two weeks to realize this, but it’s interesting. I actually do not have a friend to talk to throughout the day, and I’ve usually had one in my life, not even related to work specifically. It’s probably for the best…
I actually came here to vent about how hard it is not to get distracted while trying to work. The internet’s call is like a siren’s song, even though most of the usual touchstones are kind of boring now. It never serves me though, it ends up feeling like I have a bunch of competing voices in my head, telling me to care about too many different things at once, and what ultimately happens is that I just sort of lock up and spend too much time contemplating when it would be better to commit to action, to keep moving one foot after another. Contemplation is fine, but it can be accomplished while still making progress.
Anyway, it’s probably for the best to not have an all-day-chat buddy because it’s really just another voice in my head, becoming a distraction, or worse, another competing viewpoint that I can’t filter out fully.
And here I am, procrastinating by writing on my micro-blog, hilarious.