If you want to monitor my work PC usage, you also need to take into account my unbidden shower-time work insights. And my countless 3 AM waking work thoughts. And the dreams I’ve had about my job that are really hard to quantify, but which played a role in the solutions I have provided.

And all the outside-of-work time spent exploring and evaluating the ideas I came across from just being interested in the state of the art. And what I learned from building hobby projects that put those ideas to the test with things that nobody cares about except for me, instead of trying them out for the first time on the company’s flagship product.

And.

You also need to account for all the time I had nothing to do because I wasn’t allowed to proceed since I was waiting for the Product Owners to approve the development effort, and they rescheduled the meeting four times.

You need to account for the times when I asked for more work and wasn’t given any for three days, and was told to “just be available.”

You need to account for when my workspace broke when someone in Security blocked ALL of eclipse.org because “you can’t trust that open source stuff,” and your sanctioned resolution process is slower than a tortoise on quaaludes.

You need to account for choosing to band-aid your tech debt until even the scion of [Rube Goldberg, Frankenstein’s Monster, IE11’s Quirks Mode, accidental dynamic scope, the Pennsylvania Lottery] told you that the latest “feature” would break stuff with 100% confidence, and you still went for it.

I stopped putting sugar in my coffee and I think it might be affecting my outlook.