Ah, Friday progress meetings. Yes I’m three weeks behind, yes I know I said that three weeks ago. Yes I could have probably reached out for help but I wasn’t far along enough then to understand what exactly I needed help on.

You gotta forgive yourself too. Some tasks are so new and so encompassing that you literally need some time to break it apart in your head and attack it from a few angles.

Curling up in a ball and fretting about it whilst doing nothing is one of those angles. It prepares you mentally for tackling it from other angles.

If it was as immediately easy as they made it out to be, then it wouldn’t be a problem they would delegate out. They have a rough idea in their heads how easy it is because it was built using their own convoluted logic which you then have to learn as an outsider