simont | (no subject)

That was a slightly strange meeting.

‘Simon T to report progress.’ Once again I hadn't made any progress since the last meeting, since a variety of other urgent things had come up. So I gave a lengthy excuse which turned into an explanation of why the main urgent interruption had taken longer than I expected, and when I was about half way through the explanation I suddenly realised that the reason I'd had problems was in fact absolutely central to the topic of the meeting! Suddenly I wasn't making excuses; instead I was giving an advance warning about an issue the project will need to tackle a few months down the line. And that is progress.

So today I can even be productive by mistake. I rock.