Ups and Downs
 

It's been a tough week.

One day I'll be super productive, and the next I'm stuck for hours on a seemingly trivial bug.

And then the doubts creep in: why did I think I could do this? I'm stupid. This is all stupid.

But I have no choice but to persevere — and so that's what I do. 

Perhaps surprisingly, the more 'up and down' cycles I go through, the easier, mentally, it is to deal with them.

After reviewing the feedback on the moods, I decided it would be more effective for them to be seen as a list of options for completing the sentence: "I'm in the mood for something...".

To that end, and based on suggestions from some of y'all, I've now added 'Inspiring' and 'Challenging' to the list.

Sound good?

Last week
 

Given how the week started, I was nervous that this update would consist of me saying I didn't complete anything I planned to, but on Friday, I had a productive day.

Inspired by the author Tomi Adeyemi, I did 8 hours of alternating between 20 minutes of focused work and 10 minutes of break (with a lunch break in between).

Now you can search your TBR by title or author, and filter it down by mood and book length!

This week

I'm concerned that progress will be slow as I'm heading to a software conference in Brighton. I'll be helping out my friend, Andy Croll, as well as interviewing the amazing Sarah Mei on stage.

One thing I definitely want to focus on is strategy — what's the earliest I can get this into people's hands? Which features did I think were necessary, but in fact aren't given my priority should be testing the key value proposition?

I'll be mulling on that one.

Have a great week,

Nadia

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