Ilya Skornyakov
WordPress developer · In the business since 2022
Fragments
Sometimes people send me a long voice message, I reply "Okay", and then they ask: "What exactly is okay?"
I don't see much valour in taking on a task you're not sure about and then introducing the client to that problem as well.
Sometimes the best professional skill is realising in time that this job should be done by someone else.
I never used to think that weekends had to be deliberately protected. It turns out that if you don't, work quickly figures out you don't have any.
When your computer breaks, you find out how emotionally attached a modern person is to a rectangle with a processor in it.
At work I'm more for predictability. In life too, probably. But for some reason life never signed off on that approach.
I'm glad when, after a project, someone wants to work with me again. That says far more than any words about how well I did.