Yesterday morning, in what was supposed to be a productive day of coding, I encountered an intractible bug. I tried this and then that, but no matter what I did, I couldn’t get the darned thing to work.<\/p>\n
After spending way too much time beating my head against the wall, I found myself just going walkabout. I raided the fridge, watched eight episodes in a row of Veronica Mars<\/i>, surfed the web for random things. The hours drifted by.<\/p>\n
All this time, part of my mind was wondering “What am I doing? Am I just running away from my problems? Shouldn’t I be doing something productive instead of wasting a whole day? Shouldn’t I at least be reading a research paper or something?”<\/p>\n
But no. Back to the fridge it was, then on to the next episode of Veronica Mars<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Finally the evening came, and I went out to meet a colleague for a pre-arranged dinner. And we had a fabulous time. Conversation flowed, new ideas bubbled up, plans for collaboration moved forward.<\/p>\n
Over the course of the thirty minute walk back, I thought about what a strangely uneven day it had been. Arrived home, fell promptly asleep.<\/p>\n
Then woke up about an hour later, opened my computer and changed two lines of code to fix the bug. Now it all works perfectly.<\/p>\n
On balance, I would say it was a productive day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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