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Sep. 18th, 2013 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherI've mentioned before that I sometimes spend months stuck in a frozen panic about starting a job that turns out, once the ball is rolling, to be not that difficult. (I was a smart kid who could solve a lot of things at first glance, but I've turned out somewhat ill-equipped to handle problems that don't roll over quickly.)
Yesterday I managed to claw myself out of the latest freeze enough to do some preliminary work on the set of problems that set it off - picture me, not out of the pit, but at least clinging to the rim with my head above the surface.
And staring, with mixed feelings, at a rope ladder neatly coiled within easy reach.
See, it turns out that one of this set of problems that I've been panicking about for weeks - one of these problems already has a solution, which the people we're working on solving the problems for have been using, for years. It's got room for improvement, and it'll need integrating with the rest of the set, but it's basically done, it works, and it's a useful model for solving certain other problems in the set. Those problems whose unfamiliarity was a major factor in setting off the panic in the first place.
It would have been nice if somebody had mentioned this earlier, is what I'm saying.
Yesterday I managed to claw myself out of the latest freeze enough to do some preliminary work on the set of problems that set it off - picture me, not out of the pit, but at least clinging to the rim with my head above the surface.
And staring, with mixed feelings, at a rope ladder neatly coiled within easy reach.
See, it turns out that one of this set of problems that I've been panicking about for weeks - one of these problems already has a solution, which the people we're working on solving the problems for have been using, for years. It's got room for improvement, and it'll need integrating with the rest of the set, but it's basically done, it works, and it's a useful model for solving certain other problems in the set. Those problems whose unfamiliarity was a major factor in setting off the panic in the first place.
It would have been nice if somebody had mentioned this earlier, is what I'm saying.
