I’m starting up a new project at work. This is one of my favorite points in the work cycle (another being the opposite place, where minutiae rule); ideas that have been sloshing around for a few weeks now are starting to crystallize, and the skeleton of the final application is beginning to take shape in my mind.

In this mode of working, it’s important for me to have everything in my life together. If I’ve got distractions pulling at me, I can’t reach the mental space to do the required architecture.

Fortunately it’s a good time for it. Spring seems to have brought myriad new possibilities and opportunities to me, and I feel confident enough in where I am that I can both grow into these new spaces, and let the projects that I’m involved in grow along the way.