I’m struggling to disconnect from work. I’ve been working on an interesting problem for the last couple of weeks (compacting change data capture events from sharded MySQL servers into BigQuery). It’s an interesting technical problem. There are lots of optimization opportunities and novel patterns I can introduce.

I’m on vacation for the next two weeks but since starting my trip my mind keeps returning to the problem. I’ve even solved a few issues and come up with new patterns to try while daydreaming as we travel. Obviously I haven’t implemented any changes, I deliberately didn’t bring my work laptop with me. I emailed those solutions to my work email address so they get out of my head but that hasn’t helped. I just visualized more optimizations while hiking today.

There is no expectations from my leadership to work while on vacation.

How do others disconnect from work when I enjoy the problem solving aspects of my work?

  • Bobby Bandwidth
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    61 year ago

    I was expecting this to be an elaborate poop joke, but it turns out that it is not?

    Bro you need hobbies beyond making poop memes. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed them.

    If you got coding skills, maybe you could contribute to some open source federated thing like lemmy or tools for lemmy. You know for the greater good or something

    • Greg ClarkeOP
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      21 year ago

      I’m sure I could turn this into an elaborate poop joke with “sharding”