April Goal: Minesweeper at work

One universally held truth is "I'm too busy."  I've been thinking a lot about this quite a bit over the last months.  It's a trend that is heightened with GrubHub.com's recent series B funding.  A natural outcome of funding is to think about the possibilities we have to put those resources to work.  This is entirely appropriate.  Its also entirely appropriate to be very selective about the things that we actually move forward on. Its a tension that should exist in the mind of any executive (presidents creating national budgets are not exempt from this )

One of my goals at work is for us to work smarter, not harder (washing machines work hard, but they don't create disruptive technologies).  In direct opposition to this edict is the fact that I hate being inactive at work.  If I have a single spare moment, I'll code up some new prototype or proof of concept. Or, I'll fix the next bug in the priority queue. In engineering principles, this is called having a tightly constrained system.  Works well under known stress, but fails catastrophically outside those parameters.

So, while I probably won't actually play a lot of minesweeper, I do think I'm going to try to have more intentional breaks throughout the day.  The goal will be simply to take my hands off the keyboard, keep my mouth shut and think about stuff.

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