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[simontegg]

I'm feeling blocked on this because I haven't seen much visible progress on other tasks that we've collectively agreed are important.

[simontegg]

A lack of visible progress on tasks does not give me much confidence for fronting any comms. Particularly given recent history.

[ahdinosaur]

between Craftworks facilitation, leading a push for NodeSchool Wellington, helping bring Cobudget dev back to life, and learning how to crawl, i've been juggling a bit, but still trudging forward. 😸 i'm trying my best and for once i feel happy, so not sure what else to do. how do you feel @simontegg?

[simontegg]

The issue is that people (both internal and external) will unavoidably overlay expectations onto any comm unless the comms are made super explicit. So if the comms says "Mikey will work fulltime on holodex.", they will overlay an expectation of what that means based on their own experience.

For most people, this means "Mikey will treat Holodex as his full time job" -> which means "all kinds of tasks that aren't necessarily fun will be completed based on someone with a high degree of stakeholding (essentially a "founder") toiling away" -> which means "As a stakeholder, I can expect regular, significant improvement to the value I receive from Holodex". These expectations form in other's minds, but since that is completely natural I believe its the responsibility of the communicator to mitigate thee formation of these perhaps unrealistic expectations.

This situation does not appear to be the case. Initiating but not meeting expectations is a major anti-pattern both internally and externally (IMO).

If we communicate our commitment accurately we can avoid this and reach a good state, perhaps even a virtuous cycle. At the moment because there is a vicious cycle where the uncertainty created by poor communication makes me feel reluctant to commit to Holodex. -> "Who will do all the necessary but not so fun tasks? Me?"

[ahdinosaur]

cool, thanks @simontegg for sharing. 👍

so is your perception that i'm not committed to the necessary but not so fun tasks? the only task i'm focused on at the moment is #56 (except minor issue management and loomio comms edits). i understand if i haven't produced much in the way of visible output from my work, but i'd much rather we as a team to value effort over output.

if the problem is feeling like another team member isn't putting in the effort they committed to, maybe time tracking would be a great indicator for our effort (or lack thereof) and possibly help with this problem, or am i misinterpreting the problem? admittedly this week has been hectic for me, feeling like i'm constantly context switching, but at least you'd be able to have visibility into that, plus it'd help me measure and experiment with how to organize my work life so i'm putting in the hours i want into Holodex.