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Boring Work Needs Tension

https://iaziz786.com/blog/boring-work-needs-tension/
24•iaziz786•2h ago

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ian-g•43m ago
Or maybe, sometimes it's just flat out dull work. And it has to get done, you're the one with the capacity to do it, and you just have to grit your teeth and do it.
datadrivenangel•41m ago
Unless you work on a dysfunctional team and any non-tracked work is forbidden, and any work you try and get tracked requires 6 pages of justification and takes 10 weeks to get prioritized enough for someone to work on...
marcosdumay•16m ago
You have a funny definition of "dysfunctional".
wavemode•14m ago
How so?
tra3•11m ago
Surely it was in jest. Tons of places are like that.
ramon156•13m ago
My team isnt dysfunctional but I always get hit on the head for doing work and not making a ticket. I don't get it, if I see something bad I'm not going to search which ticket would best fit this issue. Just reviw my PR !

Also, so far most of our projects start simple but end in chaos and deadlines on the minute. I feel like we could always do better.

kbar13•32m ago
who's working at a boring job nowadays as a software dev? everywhere i see devs are wearing like 10 hats bc we have the combination of being capable yet still at the bottom of the totem pole.
tra3•11m ago
I feel like "tension" has negative connotations. Maybe it's just me. I like "friction" better in this context.

There are so many opportunities for improvement, I'm never bored. My aim is to leave this place better than I found it. Even tiny improvements compound over time.

eschneider•10m ago
> Your CI/CD takes a huge amount of time because you forgot to leverage caching.

The bane of my existence are CI/CD systems that get caching 99% right. Chasing down the problems from that last 1% of strangely busted...well, lets just say that if you want TENSION at work, good way to get it. :/

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