Out of a Cannon
My first exposure to Sid's lab was extremely sobering, in the sense that it triple-underscored the extent to which I still need to get my shit together. The environment there could be roughly described as "intimidatingly efficient". The people seem friendly -- it's just that I can't help but suspect that half of them are on speed. Which is kind of jarring since I'm used to things at university going too *slow* for my liking.
I tend to be responsive to circumstance to a degree that annoys me; a major source of my difficulties in maintaining a steady rhythm in my work habits is that I feel contextual pressure to let myself slack during the dry periods and then go into a frenzy of activity during the deluges. But I don't think I've ever felt any continuous pressure to be constantly on the ball, and if working with these people provides that then so much the better. Suddenly the notion of continuously clearing my to-do list has gone from "something to work on" to "absolutely imperative". I just blasted away half of my RSS feeds.
This is going to be exhilaratingly stressful. Hopefully I'll come out the other end looking more like tempered steel than a puddle of molten goo.
I tend to be responsive to circumstance to a degree that annoys me; a major source of my difficulties in maintaining a steady rhythm in my work habits is that I feel contextual pressure to let myself slack during the dry periods and then go into a frenzy of activity during the deluges. But I don't think I've ever felt any continuous pressure to be constantly on the ball, and if working with these people provides that then so much the better. Suddenly the notion of continuously clearing my to-do list has gone from "something to work on" to "absolutely imperative". I just blasted away half of my RSS feeds.
This is going to be exhilaratingly stressful. Hopefully I'll come out the other end looking more like tempered steel than a puddle of molten goo.