I appreciate how you phrased this - I struggle most with 'mundane, daily, repetitive tasks.' Approaching them with intentionality and presence of mind seems good, if not difficult.
quick q: why decaf? have been considering cutting out caffeine for more sustainable/natural energy throughout the day vs. a huge burst in the morning, but haven't committed.
no personal projects in the morning is great advice.
one of my biggest traps right now is using the morning (when i have the most energy & feel most focused) to tinker with my own creative projects. i can look up and it's 2pm and i haven't applied to any jobs, reached out to my network, or worked on any interview take homes.
if i turn around and it's mid-afternoon before i start doing the stuff i need to do, this typically means the day is shot.
well if people choose not to read or engage with documentation, they're only hurting themselves. in theory, their work performance will suffer when compared w/ others. and if it doesn't, then they for some reason just don't need to engage with existing documentation, so high-reading wouldn't really matter. the consequences of not reading documentation will either become clear or it won't
Agree that hiring is sure important, but I think as long as hiring is competitive, and most candidates are bad at writing, then compromises are almost inevitable?
If FAANGs started putting more weight on technical-writing skills in their hiring, we would get Leetwriting and technical-writing bootcamps. Meaning, it’s just an education issue to some extent, and there’s currently too little motivation to train writing as a skill.
Leetcode doesn't raise people's IQs, it gives them practice effect on tech's favorite IQ test. So I don't think leetwriting would work for anything except getting practice effect on the new verbal IQ tests.
