A saying used by Alice Dreger is that:
“At the end of the day,
the only person you have to sleep with
is yourself.”
When asked where that came from, she replied:
A day or two ago someone posted this too:
I feel seen. pic.twitter.com/uknKeWiG7e
” Jim Crawfurd 💙 (@jim_crawfurd) November 20, 2021
I felt seen too. I’m over-committed on too many fronts, only one of which is a day-job. I used to quip that the main source of stress was the guilt that whichever task I was doing, there were a dozen I wasn’t – with importance and urgency tangled-up in interdependencies. Sleepless nights were always associated with an imminent deadline. Invariably self-inflicted.
I remember in the days touring the conferences this became a common practice of completing (ie actually doing) preparation of presentations in the small hours of the morning before. The adrenaline seemed to help. In these cases there is an obvious marketing or ego element, individually or collectively on behalf of an organisation or team.
Even without this ego element, the good advice from Alice concerning the integrity of a good day’s work can be complex without clear distinctions between different tasks. Still good advice to aim for.