Tracking Time at Work: Time spent per Task
With all those meetings, all those pesky Slack messages, all those impromptu flyby questions, have you ever wondered how much time you actually get to do uninterrupted, focused work?
Bailey Belvis
2024.41 Language Study
Weekly notes on my journey learning (or sometimes failing to learn) Japanese.
Tracking Time at Work: Meetings
If you haven't heard an engineer complain about how many meetings they are in, then you might be living under a rock. It's practically a trope at this point.
Engineering a Wake up Routine
Somewhere in the past decade I went from being a chronic night-owl 🦉 to being a "morning person" 🌅. I'm not sure what changed and caused me to come over to the dark side of early risers, but I guess I'm in that camp now.
But
Race Recap: 2024 St. Paddy's Day Dash
It's been a struggle to get to the start line for this one, but it paid off.
2024.11 - Learning Japanese - Progress Update
Notes on my journey learning (or sometimes failing to learn) Japanese.
Interfaces
I've been thinking a lot about interfaces lately.
An interface is "the place at which independent and often unrelated systems meet and act on or communicate with each other" 1.
When you interact with your phone you utilize a graphical user interface, or a GUI. This
Tracking Time at Work: Planned vs. Unplanned Work
We've all been there. You plop down at your desk, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed 🐿️, coffee steam curling lazily up from your "best dog mom" mug ☕. You know what you need to do today.
2024.06 Learning Japanese - Hiragana and Katakana
Weekly notes on my journey learning (or sometimes failing to learn) Japanese.
Tracking Time at Work: How much do I work?
Once you start tracking your time, the first and easiest question to answer is: "So how much do you actually work anyway??".