Given this freedom, what do you take on?
If your manager told you to spend the next two weeks working on any "fun and fulfilling" project at work, what would you do?
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A few years ago this happened to me.
I had been spending my free time working on a hobby project: a rules engine for graph databases. (Yes, I need better hobbies).
During some free time I showed my manager what I was doing and what it was already capable of. He got really excited, and outlined a way to integrate it into our product. He asked if I would work on it for the company instead. I explained that it was open source and I didn’t want to lose that, and he said that was fine, but did I mind if the copyright belonged to the company? I was good with that, so off I went. I spent the next few months working on nothing else.
Here it is 3 years later, and I’ve been able to spend nearly half of my time on that project and related systems ever since. I even talk about it at conferences 😊
Finally start that low-code saas framework bouncing around in my head.
Some of the team I work with had this opportunity last year. Together with a couple others in the studio we created this. a-new.life/
We wanted to both learn some new things and challenge ourselves whilst creating something meaningful. This was the result!
I would make an assertEventually library which combines assertj with resilience4j. I would use this to replace all of our verbose Probe concepts in tests.
Work related: Build something for the Safety Dept. that's been recently requested that I've been hoping to work on for a while now.
Non-work related: Reworking my personal site & working through the PR's on Gridsome.
Spend the whole time trying to capture some sweet flags in hackthebox.eu/
Explore the different web APIs and see if/how they could be applied to our project.
I need to ponder this, because I realize I've never actually considered it... and this is an excellent thing to figure out because I occasionally do have a 1-2 week lapse in "productive work" to do as I move between projects.
Check out this person who is conducting the experiment with groups of people all over: worldwithouthierarchy.org/
I will finish to code all the phaserjs games shocase and books translations I've started on my GitHub account, but two weeks is too short, I need like more then a year or maybe more then that 😹
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