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Terminal Disease Notice

This morning I told my team that I'll be leaving the company at the beginning of Q2. I'm leaving for an exciting reason that I've known about for a while, but I couldn't tell them about it until now, and I still can't blog about it. I think being so excited but not being able to tell them was giving me a mental block. This afternoon that block disappeard, everything clicked, and my concentration returned. I think I achieved more in those 4 hours than I did in the last 2 weeks. It was perfect.

Q2 is now 2.5 months away. That's a long time. That's "terminal disease notice". I have to hand off my current projects to my coworkers, and I can't take on new projects because I won't be here in 2.5 months, so I'm free to do small design, programming, training, and planning tasks. I'm going to make a list of all of the things that my coworkers think would help the department, things we've never had time or a mandate to do, and then I'm going to do them. Sort of like a "things to do before I die" list. I'm going to clean up that old code, fix those bugs, refactor that database, write that tool, document those components, delete all those files and directories, write more quizzes and exercides, climb that mountain, etc.

I think I'm already leaving the department better than I found it, but I know I can make it much better in 2.5 months, and I'm really excited to try. :)

Colin

07:45 PM | Colin