How to Stop Feeling Lost in Tech: The Wafflehouse Method
A 48-hour introspective method for finding direction when you feel lost in tech: spend two days mapping your 5-year vision into concrete daily actions through a directed acyclic graph of goals.
tl;dr
Take two days off mid-week to do deep introspection: Day 1 at your favorite spot to vividly imagine yourself in 5 years, Day 2 at a Wafflehouse (or equivalent) to break that vision down into 5-year, 3-year, 1-year, monthly, weekly, and daily goals using a directed acyclic graph of 100+ concrete steps. Plan assuming every day will be a bad day.
My Thoughts
Super fan of ways of changing my life to become something better, even though the disclaimer is that, as you get on responsibilities with your family/friends, this becomes harder and harder. Especially assuming that things will work in the worst case scenario, never true.
Still, I think it’s worth exercising introspection and direction, realising if inertia itself will get you there or you need to fuel up things. As a person who is obscenely obsessed with learning and getting hobbies, I think that the most difficult part is to define what you like and what you wanna be.
The method resonates because it forces you to be concrete. Not just “I want to be successful” but actually breaking it down into real things.
I will try to reserve two days for this, thanks Yacine.
This is my personal commentary on the original article. Please read the original article for the full context.