Re:Deconcentration of Attention: Addressing the Complexity o...
by csbartus on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:32PM
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I work 80% for free (for myself), 20% for money (consulting, freelancing).
Free it's like a sabbatical. Whenever I need to learn a new technology I take a sabbatical, build a framework, then go back to produce income with that framework.
For example in September last year I took a sabbatical for learning Design Systems. My first paying customer came this August. This streak took a year, and I'm at the third iteration only.
When on sabbatical, I'm changing locations / cities / countries to be able to support myself during that period. When in production mode, I'm again moving to larger / more expensive places.
But how do you negotiate deadlines and keep the upper chain of decision making happy and aware of the value being created with each refactor? Most of the time with the teams I worked with, "works" is the sole metric of success and features keep being sold or promised leaving no room to deal with documented technical debt (and the lack of such documentation).