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Agreed. It also gets easier to determine if you will like one recipe over another one the more experience you get cooking. In a way you get used to a specific cooks style so you start recognizing it in other recipes.

Yes, your teeth will fall off!

Jokes aside, the longer you leave the bag in, the more bitter your tea will be. You also get more caffeine. For a lot of tea connoisseurs it destroys the taste of the tea. I say try taking it out after 3, see if you like the taste more or less.

You can also re-use tea for a 2nd or 3rd brew, but that's not possible when you leave the bag, the 2nd batch will come out too light.

Actually Keepass and Keepassxc is better. I like having my passwords stores locally and not in the cloud.

I have a personal repository group. Three repositories within it. One named 'knowledge' where I store code snippets, common issues with their solutions I have dealt with. It has multiple markdown files, one per scope. I have a git.md, docker.md, and language based ones. issues.md I keep all the error X has solution Y. If I have to deal with an error I look there, if nothing is found i append the solution. If I realize I had the solution but I was using the wrong search term, I will add my search term in the original solution.

My other repo is a scratch pad of sorts. Various scripts and tests, at various stages. This is for things like testing sorts, weird complicated manipulations to strings etc. I some need to run some script somewhere else to check somet so I can just clone scratch repo somewhere remotely and run things there. Mostly though it's more of a let me take all my objects from debug mode and use those values with a code snippet I want to alter without having to run large files to reproduce those object values.

Third repo is my story repo. It holds all the stories I work on, with my notes. We use Jira so it's story is - a short description. Inside I write my thoughts, things I need to consider, things I don't want to forget. Lately I have been experimenting with having a day.md and I just keep appending on the top new days, I don't k ow if I like it more.

All three repos are public within the company. I actually have used the story repo for presentations within my team etc. I find that it helps me keep me accountable.

The fourth repo is not pushed anywhere. Just local for my personal todos, but I rarely use it. Instead I write my personal stuff on paper. It helps separate personal from work todos just by using a different medium.

I am in a similar position. Turned 41 years old. New "tech" that goes away in a few years is getting tiresome. I moved from Dev to DevOps for a change of pace, but it made things worse in a way.

I've debated management, but being in meetings all day sounds worse...

As a dev, I find it very hard to only work in 25m increments. It takes about 15m to sync up mentally to the task at hand and pull up my mental map of the code base I am working in.

What's your process in comparison?

Does my code still make sense to me 6 months later?

Did I introduce new bugs?

Are people using my building blocks to add features or working around them/ redoing them?

These are not good metrics. I have researched this and it seems there is no good way to measure coding improvement except subjective measurements.

You are a good person. The fact that you reflected on this says so.

Don't get stuck on wishing you listened more.

Call his wife, see if she needs anything like fixing a fence, water faucets etc.

BPD is horrific. My SO has a mom with BPD and she might he the most horrible, controlling, mean, immature person I have ever met.

How do you keep track of your queue?

Also is it FIFO, LIFO or a priority model?

My queue seems to bloat, then I tried to mitigated that by telling myself if something is in the queue for X amount of time remove it.

Nowadays that removal just becomes a JIRA story but it's rather inefficient for me.

GTD has too much upkeep even when setup properly. It gives the illusion of progress because it indirectly focused on efficiency not effectiveness.

As a project manager with multiple projects where my work was to have others do the work it was a good methodology.

As a DevOps guy that is heavily in the dev side I find it destructive.

As a DevOps guy I find the biggest hurdle Dev education and stubborn management.

Right now 90% of the end to end tests could have been run during unit testing. Instead they are run after a full code deployment. This adds an extra hour of testing. :(

There is no need to search for a unicorn at first. It's about starting and doing something

Since I am the one that made this post, I will answer you.

- If I work at my 9-5 8 or 12 hours a day it makes no difference in the money I bring home. You can say that theoretically I will get promoted but there are limits.

- I do not control my fate. Case in point today AFTER I made this post the company I work for laid off 16 people, it's a company of 180 so close to 10%

- I don't want to have an expensive house / car. I just want to financial be able to support myself and my family

- Freedom. Freedom to not work for a day and not have to explain myself. Freedom to travel somewhere and not have to worry about it. I realize the contrary to this, perhaps having my own business is not really freedom. I will still have clients, or people that need things from me.

Is this the article you are referencing?

http://www.feld.com/archives/2011/10/be-on-fire.html

Cause that picture is now my new wallpaper...

Also it sounds like you have a similar path to mine. Launch stuff, fail, launch again stop mid way when no traction, launch, fail.

Mind if I ask what you are doing that having 5 clients is all you need to be self-sufficient?

Is your business profitable? If not how much longer can you sustain yourself?

I can also work from home pretty much every day. I avoid it because I have 4 kids at home, and it's kind of a zoo.

I actually agree.

I have come to realize that 9 to 5 is not horrible, the key is self-fulfillment and happiness. For most people they will be unhappy regardless of the state of finances or work they do.

I realize that even if I have my own business it does not mean I won't have to deal with things I don't like. What attracts me though is the financial independence, having control of my future instead of someone else having control of it.

What kind of consulting do you do?

This is a pretty good set of options. Especially the first option broken down by customers / price.

$3.5K is enough to comfortably support me $7k-10k would be epic

What's your definition of medium sized?